Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.
Frank HerbertCaution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
Frank HerbertThere are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
Frank HerbertReady comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Frank Herbert