“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
“Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
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