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Frank Patrick Herbert
“A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.”
Frank Herbert, The Jesus Incident

John   Waters
“My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.”
John Waters, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book about Bad Taste

Frank Patrick Herbert
“Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.”
Frank Herbert

Masha Gessen
“In functioning democracies, the contradictions between avowed ideals and reality can be and often are called out, causing social and political change. That does not eliminate the built-in gap, but it has a way of making societies a little more democratic and a little less unequal, in spurts. Totalitarian ideology allows no such correction. Hannah Arendt maintained that any ideology can become totalitarian, but for that to happen it needs to be reduced to a single simple idea, which is then turned into a single simple idea from which the ostensible 'laws of history' are derived - and enforced through terror. What distinguishes a totalitarian ideology is its utterly insular quality. It purports to explain the entire world and everything in it. There is no gap between totalitarian ideology and reality because totalitarian ideology contains all of reality within itself.”
Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Frank Patrick Herbert
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero”
Frank Herbert, Dune

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