It is megalomania and egotism and the pride of the man in the Bible that waxed fat and kicked.

But the results are the same.

She wants to destroy and simplify; but it isn't the simplicity of the ascetic, which is of the spirit, but the simplicity of the madman that grinds down all the contrivances of civilization to a featureless monotony.

The prophet wants to save the souls of his people; Germany wants to rule the inanimate corpse of the world.

But you can get the same language to cover both.