These are the top six themes from our poll.
There was a huge drop off in votes after number six.
There was a pleasant understanding of the role of money and corporations in the readers' selections.
“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."
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, March 1985