Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

Ready 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.

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.