True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.
War is horrible because it strangles youth.
We shall have to remove everything that strangles artistic and scientific creativeness.
Yes, victors are our strongest. They're the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. They, or should I say we, are the very embodiment of hope where there is no hope. And now twenty-three of us will be killed to show how even that hope was an illusion.