Quotes About Control

People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. We can't have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable?

Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.

And his father was right: trying for some ultimate control of the universe, you only built weapons with which the universe eventually defeated you.

Even the seemingly immortal gods survive only as long as they are required by mortal men.

It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests which move the hands of God.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion

The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn't they?

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…

I hold at your neck the gom jabbar," she said. "The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison.

Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos. — PanSpechi aphorism

The music of a civilization has far-reaching consequences on consciousness and, thus, influences the basic nature of a society. Music and its rhythms divert and compel the awareness, describing the limits within which a consciousness, thus fascinated, may operate. Control the music, then, and you own a powerful tool with which to shape the society. ?The Dosadi Analysis, BuSab Documents

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

That which makes a man superhuman is terrifying.

to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that." Jessica

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained...be exceedingly careful about the powers you delegate to any government.

Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.

Given the right lever you can move a planet.

Paul took a place in the line behind Chani. He had put down the black feeling at being caught by the girl. In his mind now was the memory called up by his mother's barked reminder: "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!" He found that his hand tingled with remembered pain.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. —WORDS OF AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER

Non devo aver paura. La paura uccide la mente. La paura è la piccola morte che porta alla distruzione totale. Affronterò la mia paura. Farò che scivoli sopra di me, che passi attraverso me. E quando sarà passata, il mio occhio interiore scruterà il suo sentiero. Ma dov'è andata la paura non ci sarà nulla. Io soltanto ci sarò. Io, e nient'altro.

You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach." Jessica

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.

She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul