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Quote from Frank Herbert,


"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "


By:

Frank Herbert (more quotes by Frank Herbert or books by/about Frank Herbert)


(1920-1986) American science fiction writer

Source:

"The Dosadi Experiment"

Categories:

Government, Independence, Power

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