Quotes About Society

He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob." His

I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.

machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.

ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings. It's

It is said one can always tell an aristocrat: he reveals only those of his vices which will make him popular.

Oricare ar fi gradul de exotism atins de civilizaÈ›ie, oricare ar fi dezvolt?rile existenÈ›ei È™i ale societ??ii sau complexitatea interfeÈ›ei om/maÈ™in?, exist? interludii de putere solitar?, în cursul c?rora evoluÈ›ia omenirii È™i viitorul ei depind de acÈ›iunile relativ simple ale anumitor indivizi.

Un individ n-are sens decât prin relaÈ›ia pe care o întreÈ›ine cu ansamblul societ??ii. Dac? aceast? societate nu este logic organizat? în straturi, nimeni nu-È™i va putea g?si locul, de la cel mai sublim pân? la cel mai umil.

In our society, people shouldn't be quick to take offense. It's frequently suicidal.

What history touches the woman in the rice paddy driving her water buffalo ahead of her plow while her husband is off somewhere, most likely a conscript, carrying a weapon?

Arrakis is a one-crop planet," his father said. "One crop. It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings. It's the masses and the leavings that occupy our attention. These are far more valuable than has ever been suspected.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing.

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.

Professional legalists were absolutely prohibited from Gowachin judicial service. Let the people judge.

The censure of your peers? But what if your peers balked at no obscenity? You could do anything.

We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.

a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

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

The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing-care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing joys, love and sorrows. Funeral lamentation originated with women. Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and Practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.

Peace has only one meaning in this Imperium. It's the maintenance of a single way of life.

Loyalty in a male army fastens onto the army itself rather than onto the civilization which fosters the army.

Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack.

All sentient beings are created unequal. The best society provides each with equal opportunity to float at his own level. — The Gowachin Primary

O civilizaÈ›ie se întemeiaz?, în cea mai mare parte, pe laÈ™itate. Este atât de uÈ™or s? civilizezi propov?duind laÈ™itatea. Diluezi factorii care ar putea încuraja cutezanÈ›a. Limitezi exercitarea voinÈ›ei. Egalizezi apetiturile. Îngr?deÈ™ti orizonturile. Decretezi o lege pentru fiecare miÈ™care. Negi existenÈ›a haosului. Îi înveÈ›i pân? È™i pe copii s? respire domol. ÎmblânzeÈ™ti.