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“Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“Men must want to do
things out of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work.
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to
greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses.”
― Children of Dune
things out of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work.
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to
greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses.”
― Children of Dune
“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. —THE APOCRYPHA OF MUAD’DIB”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
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