Children of Dune
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2024-06-02 11:25:03
It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
2024-06-02 11:23:02
Governments, 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.
2024-04-28 10:45:50
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
2024-04-28 10:44:12
short-term expediency always fails in the long term
2024-04-28 10:42:43
Among the responsibilities of command is the necessity to punish . . . but only when the victim demands it.
2024-04-28 10:39:31
Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.
