When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.
You can't build politics on love, he said. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
You know the myth of the Great Spice Hoard? Yes, I know about that story, too. A majordomo brought it to me one day to amuse me. The story says there is a hoard of melange, a gigantic hoard, big as a...
It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--o...
Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an a...
Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
Bir zamanlar, insanlar düşünme işini makinelere devretmiş, böylece özgürleşmeyi umut etmişlerdi; ama bu, makinelere sahip başka insanların onları köleleştirmesine yol açtı sadece.
But you invite ...I invite a bit of military nonsense.That’s what I ...Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson. What lesson? The ultimately suicidal nature of milita...
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
His plan has good points and bad points...as any plan would at this stage. A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.
How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
I didn't want to be different.I wanted to be able to laughBut I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared.I don't want to be part of history, I just...
I remember friends from wars all but we forgot. All of them distilled into each wound we caught. Those wounds are all painful places where we fought. Battles never left behind, ones we never sought.
If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.
In the wrong hands, Leto said, monolithic centralized power is a dangerous and volatile instrument. - And your hands are the right ones?
Is God troubled? And her companion replied: The sins of this universe would trouble anyone.
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocr...
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