Quotes from The Dosadi Experiment

“More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are not being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“QUESTION: Who governs the governors?
ANSWER: Entropy.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely.” “That’s”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“There is a fundamental tension between science and freedom - no matter how science is viewed by its practitioners nor how freedom is sensed by those who believe they have it.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

“To be guilty is to be innocent. Thus, to be innocent is to be guilty.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from The Dosadi Experiment

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