Power is a duty, not a right, and power is only right when it is exercised not in one's own name or in the name of one's own, but in the name of God, in the name of truth. ... And all political life based on the struggle for the right of power must be recognized as an unreal, fictitious, vampiric life. There is nothing ontological about it. Nine-tenths of politics is always a lie, a deception, a fiction. And only one-tenth of politics contains the real element, the exercise of power necessary for the existence of the world, power from God.

— Nikolai Berdyaev