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The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2) QUOTES

The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2) QUOTES

1 " Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name. "

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

2 " We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are not being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power. "

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

3 " We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. "

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

4 " Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why? "

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

5 " Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures? "

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

6 " In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched. "

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

7 " We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane. "

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

8 " If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "

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

9 " More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living. "

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

10 " How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin. "

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

11 " The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "

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

12 " Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely.” “That’s "

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

13 " Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed "

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

14 " It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches. "

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

15 " You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you. "

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

16 " No legal system can maintain justice unless every participant — magisters, prosecutors, Legums, defendants, witnesses, all — risks life itself in whatever dispute comes before the bar. Everything must be risked in the Courtarena. If any element remains outside the contest and without personal risk, justice inevitably fails.
— Gowachin Law "

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

17 " Professional legalists were absolutely prohibited from Gowachin judicial service. "Let the people judge. "

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

18 " 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)

19 " Here, they showed us the "Walden Fallacy" in ultimate foolishness, explaining: "Given any species which reproduces by genetic mingling such that every individual is a unique specimen, all attempts to impose a decision matrix based on assumed uniform behavior will prove lethal."
— The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference "

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

20 " In a changing universe, only a changing species can hope to be immortal and then only if its eggs are nurtured in widely scattered environments. This predicts a wealth of unique individuals.
— Insights (a glimpse of early Human philosophy), BuSab Text "

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