You must be always hungry and thirsty. The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. Like me.
You don’t see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.
You cannot fix your gaze upon it!Senses cannot record it.No words describe it.-Alia
Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
When your opponent fears you, then’s the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in...
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.
When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obsta...
When I am weaker than 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. —
What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.
We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers - One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders...
This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You’ve learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the univer...
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This...
This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all of the stories about him and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack.
They displayed a sophistication in warfare as good as anything he had ever encountered, and he had been trained by the best fighters in the universe then seasoned in battles where only the superior fe...
There was a man who sat each day looking out through a narrow vertical opening where a single board had been removed from a tall wooden fence. Each day a wild ass of the desert passed outside the fenc...
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib
There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it’s almost imposs...
The pitfall of Bene Gesserit training, she reminded herself, lay in the powers granted: such powers predisposed one to vanity and pride. But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe powe...
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.