You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
Frank HerbertAll governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
Frank HerbertIf you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
Frank Herbert