“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted” — science fiction writer Frank Herbert in Chapterhouse Dune (1985). He also said, “The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind” in The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert, in Mother Earth News No. 69 (May/June 1981).