" Not people in government. Most of them are fundamentally different beings. If you plead to them for mercy, that is what they live for. What they want is to have others groveling beneath them. Rather than wanting to help, they will prolong your fear and suffering just as long as they can, because it is your helplessness, and the power they can hold over you, that gives them their jollies. "

― Larken Rose , The Iron Web