[A]n incarnate will to power … will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant – not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power … “Exploitation” … belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil”