Believe me, there is no winning when you play by a twisted tyrant’s rules.
You don’t have to be a tyrant, but if you don’t want to be consistently cruel, then you have to be sufficiently brutal at least once to establish authority.
You demand love by tyranny, Richard. It’ll only get you so far.
They say the first thing that goes under tyranny is our capacity for surprise.
Only tyrants need worry about tyrant killers.[to Caesar]
