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

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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
– William Blake

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Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.
– John Adams