Comparing three different systems: United Kingdom, European Union and Italy. 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 interest of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. -The Politics as repetitive phenomenon: Training Handbook of the Bene Gesserit Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. -Laws and Government: Handbook of the Spacing Guild What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses. -Frank Herbert, Children of Dune People education before legal system, schools before commercial organizations.
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