

“Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune

“You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Dune
― Dune

“This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune

“Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
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