archives quotes

What social inheritances went outward with the Scattering? We know those time
s intimately. We know both the mental and physical settings. The Lost Ones t
ook with them a consciousness confined mostly to manpower and hardware. There
was a desperate need for room to expand driven by the myth of Freedom. Most
had not learned the deeper lesson of the Tyrant, that violence builds its own
limits. The Scattering was wild and random movement interpreted as growth (ex
pansion). It was goaded by a profound fear (often unconscious) of stagnation
and death.

-The Scattering: Bene Gesserit Analysis (Archives)