Heretics of Dune (Dune, #5)

by Frank Herbert

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation which produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

we only hate what’s really dangerous to us.”

By your belief in singularities, in granular absolutes, you deny movement, even the movement of evolution! While you cause a granular universe to persist in your awareness, you are blind to movement. When things change, your absolute universe vanishes, no longer accessible to your self-limiting perceptions. The universe has moved beyond you.

Denying changes

Concealed behind strong barriers the heart becomes ice

“When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.”