If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
In biology, the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Power is not a tool, it is a weapon. And like any weapon, it can be used for good or ill.
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, anguished or mocking smokescreen which keeps the other in its place.