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Quotes About Dominance

Surely you know bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power.
~ Frank Herbert
Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.
~ Frank Herbert
That which submits rules.
~ Frank Herbert
It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.
~ Frank Herbert
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
~ Frank Herbert
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?   —Bene
~ Frank Herbert
Culture! They dispense culture the better to rule. Beauty! They promote the beauty which enslaves. They create a literate ignorance—easiest thing of all. They leave nothing to chance. Chains! Everything they do forges chains, enslaves. But slaves always revolt.
~ Frank Herbert
The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
~ Frank Herbert
Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely." "That's
~ Frank Herbert
Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
~ Frank Herbert
The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos. — PanSpechi aphorism
~ Frank Herbert
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
~ Frank Herbert
You understand? One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
~ Frank Herbert
Individual human experience is not the overriding control factor in human behavior. The cellular social pattern dominates.
~ Frank Herbert
The slave makes an awful master
~ Frank Herbert
Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.
~ Frank Herbert
Rekli su da sve tvoje slobode nestaju kad pokorno gledaš u nekog apsolutnog vladara.
~ Frank Herbert
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
~ Frank Herbert
Când sunt mai slab ca voi, v? cer libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor voastre; când sunt mai puternic ca voi, v? iau libertatea pentru c? asta corespunde principiilor mele.
~ Frank Herbert
It's my storm, Paul said [...] Though it shook the entire world it could not be more than I wished.
~ Frank Herbert
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? -Bene Gesserit Council Proceedings: Archives #XOX232
~ Frank Herbert
He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.
~ Frank Herbert
Control the coinage and the courts – let the rabble have the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advised you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?
~ Frank Herbert
The people who can destroy a thing, they control it," Paul
~ Frank Herbert