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The Preacher lifted his chin to speak over her to the crowd, shouted: I give you Muad'Dib's words! He said, "I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity?
How else do we define cowardice?" That's what Muad'Dib told you!'

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
—Words of an ancient philosopher