2 Ironical in one line. As regards the bonzes (bosses).

Envy is a wonderful mover to the heights of landscaping.

Politics differs from animal husbandry only in its higher cruelty to the population.

We may not be particularly envious of the rulers of the world - they, like us, will drop dead anyway.

Art for the most part reflects life in a particularly perverted form.

The vices of the authorities are nothing more than a clear reflection of the vices of the population.

Nowadays the state is a gang, more or less decorous.