Bureaucracy Quote by Frank Herbert

“Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.”

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The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.

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“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.”

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“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.”

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“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?”

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Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

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So many signatures for such a small heart.

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