But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders m… - Frank Herbert

Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.

I’ve heard you say, Bell, that logic is good for playing pyramid chess but often too slow for needs of survival.

You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.

I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex.