Frank Herbert
- Litany Against Fear (condensed)
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will allow it to pass over and through me. When the fear has gone, there will be nothing - only I will remain.
Frank Herbert
- Good Governance - Children of Dune
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
Frank Herbert
- Frank Herbert -- Children of Dune
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.
Ben Kenobi
- A Certain Point Of View
What I told you was true, from a certain point of view. Luke, you will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
