“Only liberals really think. Only liberals are intellectual. Only liberals understand the needs of their fellows.” How much viciousness lay concealed in that word! Odrade thought. How much secret ego demanding to feel superior.” ― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune

Was reading through heretics and had a laugh at this. As the books go on Herbert can't help but inject more and more of his shitty opinions and related bruised ego. Here was a good little inner dialogue where someone used the word "liberal" and a character freaked out for a moment thinking they were called a liberal and its so absurdly just herbert injecting the political concept of liberal and conservatives from american politics, I can't imagine people at any era reading this and not seeing it for exactly what it is lol