Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. —Bene Gesserit Coda
The price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life -we went soft, we lost our edge.
The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow...
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable...
Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition.
I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.
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...
Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad’Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flas...
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
Wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!
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.
You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will.
What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
To exist is to stand out, away from the background,
To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.