My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ‘Something
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial orga...
What’s a gom jabbar?
Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bri...
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more a...
Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually mu...
For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say.The thing was written with salt, Irulan translated.
You must teach me someday how you do that, he said, the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing. It’s a female thing, she said.
When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles
When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.
We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. —Bene Gesserit Coda
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into st...
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
Our civilization appears to’ve fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.
It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests which move the hands of God.
You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will.
People want order, this kind or some other. They sit in the prison of their hungers and see that war has become the sport of the rich. That's a dangerous form of sophistication. It's disorderly.
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