Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment is often more potent. It can guide reaction whose effects are felt only when too late to divert them.
- Bene Gesserit Advice to Postulants
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
- The Bashar Teg
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Spend energies on those who make you strong. Energy spent on weaklings drags you to doom. (HM rule) Bene Gesserit Commentary: Who judges?
- The Dortujla Record
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
- Darwi Odrade
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
A major concept guides the Missionaria Protectiva: Purposeful instruction of the masses. This is firmly seated in our belief that the aim of argument should be to change the nature of truth. In such matters, we prefer the use of power rather than force.
- The Coda
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
- Darwi Odrade
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security.
- Bene Gesserit Coda
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
- Bene Gesserit Coda
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
The most dangerous game in the universe is to govern from an oracular base. We do not consider ourselves wise enough or brave enough to play that game. The measures detailed here for regulation in lesser matters are as near as we dare venture to the brink of government. For our purposes, we borrow a definition from the Bene Gesserit and we consider the various worlds as gene pools, sources of teachings and teachers, sources of the possible. Our goal is not to rule, but to tap these gene pools, to learn, and to free ourselves from all restraints imposed by dependency and government.
- The Steersman Guide, Chapter Three:“The Orgy as a Tool of statecraft”
Thursday, July 19th, 2007
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend towards each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: “I feed on your energy.”
- The Emperor Paul Muad’dib, Addenda to Orders in Council