There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
Frank HerbertReligions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank HerbertReligion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
Frank HerbertGovernments, 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.
Frank Herbert