In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existenc...
How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?
Holiness has replaced love in your religion!
Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.
Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?
Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power, Tuek said. You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
What have we here—jinn or human?
Warfare leaves a residue of ‘eat drink and be merry’ that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown.
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.
Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.
I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.
Failure to make a decision was in itself a decision—he
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error, Leto explained. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
The sleeper must awaken