If You Think Of Yourselves As Helpless And Ineffectual, It Is Certain That You Will Create A Despotic Government To Be Your Master.

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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

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