" Behavioral engineering in all of its manifestations always degenerates into merciless manipulation. It reduces all (manipulators and manipulated alike) to a deadly "mass effect." The central assumption, that manipulation of individual personalities can achieve uniform behavioral responses, has been exposed as a lie by many species but never with more telling effect than by the Gowachin on Dosadi.
— The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference "

― Frank Herbert , The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)