. . . if I had just taken over the empire, I would become the new source of power in the world. But that is still something to hate, to fight against. And the wars wouldn't end . . . any good I could do would be outweighed by resistance. I could be benign, but it would still be a benign dictatorship. And even if I gave people power . . . it would never be trusted. There would never be a way out of the cycle.