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  1. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you.
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  2. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.
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  3. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed
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  4. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?
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  5. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.
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  6. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched.
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  7. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely." "That's
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  8. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    QUESTION: Who governs the governors?ANSWER: Entropy.
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  9. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
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  10. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.
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  11. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.
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  12. Frank Herbert _ The Dosadi Experiment

    We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are not being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power.
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