If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Quote by Frank Herbert

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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a...

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a...

If you believe yourself sufficiently hungry, you will eat your own thoughts

If you believe yourself sufficiently hungry, you will eat your own thoughts

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create...

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create...

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have...

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have...

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably...

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably...

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver...

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver...

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Humans are almost always lonely.

Humans are almost always lonely.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully...

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully...

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of...

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of...

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst...

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst...

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may...

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may...