It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity
Gilles Deleuze, FĂ©lix Guattari (2004). “EPZ Thousand Plateaus”, p.249, A&C Black

It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity