Quotes about Dominance
To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
- Frank Herbert
I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
- Frank Herbert
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
- Frank Herbert
It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.
- Frank Herbert
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
- Frank Herbert
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? —Bene
- Frank Herbert
Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
- Frank Herbert
It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…
- Frank Herbert
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.
- Frank Herbert
When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
- Frank Herbert
Behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: 'I feed on your energy.
- Frank Herbert
Without men to do your killing, the woman will have power over you!" "She doesn't know that!
- Frank Peretti