On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power, the Duke said. Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.
Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come, Tuek said. Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow–we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart–water, green grass,...
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
The people who demand that the oracle predict for them really want to know next year’s price on whalefur or something equally mundane. None of them wants an instant-by-instant prediction of his person...
He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires.
Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law canno...
Inflection is the adjective of language. It carries the subtleties of delight and horror, the essence of culture and social process.
The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.
One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.
Hard tasks need hard ways.
People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes ampl...
He thought. And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't the future? Could it be that the oracle the...
Are you already training my replacement? Piter demanded. Replace you? Why, Piter, where could I find another Mentat with your cunning and venom?The same place you found me, Baron.Perhaps I should at t...
Sometimes I wonder about Piter, the Baron said. I cause pain out of necessity, but he...I swear he takes a positive delight in it.-Baron Vladimir
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world......
We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words and you see the broad sweep of social behavior t...
From Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan
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