"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."

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Source : Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin

Frank Herbert

#Government Quotes #Class Quotes #Aristocracy Quotes

“It took President Obama to make America lead like America again.”
“Id like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!”
“Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.”
“We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.”
“One of the things I want to find out is where the hell are the WWE ice cream bars?!”
“To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.”

Source : "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy". Book by Joseph Schumpeter, Part IV, Chapter XX, Section III, 1942.
“Jesus Christ accomplished everything that God the Father started at the creation, and that includes total health.”

Source : Rod Parsley (2003). “At the Cross: Where Healing Begins”, Creation House
“A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.”

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