ΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΚΒ The Despot in Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.

“Yet it is true; and they have this insight because they serve, and because they can have no personal interest in the affairs of those whom they serve.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “An absolute monarch would be absolutely wise and good.”
  2. “The ruler asserts facts as they are; the slave has therefore no option but to deny them passionately, in order to express his discontent. Hence such absurdities as ‘Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite’, ‘In God we trust’, and the like. Similarly we find people asserting today that woman is superior to man, and that all men are born equal.”
  3. “The waiters of the best eating-houses mock the whole world; they estimate every client at his proper value.”
  4. “But no man is strong enough to have no interest. Therefore the best king would be Pure Chance.”
  5. “This I know certainly, because they always treat me with profound respect. Thus they have flattered me into praising them thus publicly.”