The Axis

We seek power Entirely for its own sake We are not interested in the good of others We are interested solely in power Pure power What pure power means You will understand presently We are different from the oligarchies of the past In that we know what we are doing All the others, even those who resembled ourselves Pretended, perhaps they even believed That they had seized power unwillingly And for a limited time And that just around the corner there lay a paradise Where human beings would be free and equal We are not like that We know what no one ever seizes power With the intention of relinquishing it Power is not a means It is an end One does not establish a dictatorship In order to safeguard a revolution One makes the revolution In order to establish the dictatorship The object of persecution is persecution The object of torture is torture The object of power is power Now, you begin to understand me