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“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.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert