Frank Herbert Quotes

Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.

The most powerful forces in economics are not numbers or facts. They are prejudices and preferences. No amount of evidence will ever change the degree to which many of the rich and powerful prefer themselves to be richer and more powerful and others poorer and weaker.

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

All the power's in the hands of people rich enough to buy it.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don't ourselves experience.

The only way to gain the kinds of often-generational wealth that the 1% has been able to gain is through controlling the populations it relied on to make its wealth.

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

... anything a powerful group has is perceived as good, no matter what it is, and anything a less powerful group has is not so good, no matter how intrinsically great it might be.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and those who suffer the decisions, the Indian government just goes ahead and does what it wants. The people also assume that this is their lot, their karma, what was written. It's quite an efficient way of doing things. Therefore, India has a very good reputation in the world as a democracy, as a government that cares, that has just got too much on its hands, whereas, in fact, it's actually creating the problems.

Steal a little and they throw you in jail Steal a lot and they make you king.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

influence which is given on the side of money is usually against truth.