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.


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I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.
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... one doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.
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This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to sla...
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There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.
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The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique cap...
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Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children kn...
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Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You co...
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He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.
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A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language y...
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Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They f...
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I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness ...
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She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
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I observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about ou...
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Where is Alia?' she asked.
'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,...
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you can’t buy security
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You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
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My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the stren...
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A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the lev...
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Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on...
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Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.
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The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric....
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the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
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Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
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he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning “That path leads ever down into s...
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