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"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despoti..." — Frank Herbert

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
Frank Herbert Writer • American
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