Unbridled ambition

Stop at nothing.

That is the motto of Machiavelli, of Faust, of every witch and Satanist.

Of the lawless criminal, the tyrant, the fanatic.

Of the Jihader, the Leninist, the secret policeman.

Of the Tuskegee doctor, of Mengele, and of the utilitarian.

Of every slaughterer for "the greater good" as well as every slaughterer for the great god, Self.

Reading Marlowe's Doctor Faustus.