Quote by Frank Herbert
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is cert

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. – Frank Herbert

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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. – Frank Herbert

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

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