Dune Messiah# SciFiction - 星际浪子
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The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the
necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend
toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from
his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a
difference of degree. You have done violence to him,
consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your
intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the
ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy."
-Addenda to Orders in Council The Emperor P
necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend
toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from
his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a
difference of degree. You have done violence to him,
consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your
intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the
ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy."
-Addenda to Orders in Council The Emperor P