"...there are just two things that make the world go round: morality and politics. Morality, a very footling thing, means being fair and honest. It is, so they say, the basis of a number of rather boring virtues...
SUZANNE. And politics?
BÉGEARSS. Ah! Politics is the art of making things happen, of leading people and events by the nose: it's child's play. Its purpose is self-interest, its method intrigue. Always economical with the truth, it has boundless, dazzling possibilities which stand like a beacon and draw you on."
(Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, The Other Tartuffe, or The Guilty Mother, Act IV, Scene 4)
