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  1. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. "I already know the important things!"we say. Then Changer comes
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  2. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV {decto}
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  3. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity." Odrade explaining. "The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.
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  4. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.
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  5. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.
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  6. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.
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  7. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest.
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  8. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security.
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  9. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.
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  10. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. -Darwi Odrade
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  11. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Warfare leaves a residue of 'eat drink and be merry' that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown.
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  12. Frank Herbert _ Chapterhouse: Dune

    Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. -The Coda
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