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Frank Herbert1920–1986

Frank Herbert on power

It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Chapterhouse Dune (1985)

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The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things.
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Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. “Leave me alone! It’s not time to get up yet!”
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By the time we awaken faintly to the awareness that we have been socially conditioned, we find ourselves so indoctrinated that it’s difficult, if not impossible, to break the old patterns.
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More about power

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
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What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
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Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97
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