Quotes About Control

If you think you own something, that's like walking on quicksand.

The tyranny of the minority cloaked in the mask of the majority," Odrade called it, her voice exultant. "Downfall of democracy. Either overthrown by its own excesses or eaten away by bureaucracy.

Power attracts the psychotics. Always.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. The uncertain rabbits had to be exposed, made to run for their burrows. Else how could you control them and breed them?

The man without emotions is the one to fear. But deep emotions…ah, now, those can be bent to your needs.

Piter de Vried

Understand yourself, Piter. You want her because she was a Duke's woman, a symbol of his power—beautiful, useful, exquisitely trained for her role.

La mente gobierna al cuerpo, y éste obedece. La mente se ordena a sí misma, y encuentra resistencia.

De?in controlul unui lucru numai acei ce-l pot distruge.

What's your game?" "I modify the human desire for war." "People don't want war!" "They want chaos. War is the most readily available form of chaos.

Then she heard Paul's voice, low and controlled, reciting the litany: "Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.

it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

OkumuÅŸ cahiller ordusu yarat?yorlar. Hiçbir ÅŸeyi ÅŸansa b?rakm?yorlar. Zincirler! Yapt?klar? her ÅŸey insanlar? zincire vurmaya, köleleÅŸtirmeye yönelik. Ama köleler mutlaka isyan eder.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear . . .

Your Fish Speakers aren't an army, they're a police force." "By my name, I assure you that's not so. Police are inevitably corrupted.

Frank Herbert

Choose containable violence when violence cannot be avoided. Better this than epidemic violence. — Lessons of Choice, The BuSab Manual

And rulers are notoriously cynical where religions are concerned. Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

And now we control it?" "To a certain degree. But the important thing is to consider all the Houses that depend on CHOAM profits. And think of the enormous proportion of those profits dependent upon a single product—the spice. Imagine what would happen if something should reduce spice production." "Whoever had stockpiled melange could make a killing," Paul said. "Others would be out in the cold.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. And, naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.