All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!
Are you a believer or just playing safe?
Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.
Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul’s face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.
Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed
Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.
Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento às máquinas, na esperança de que isso os libertasse. Mas só permitiu que outros homens com máquinas os escravizassem
Even in the most barren wasteland, a flower always grows. Recognize this, and learn to adapt to your surroundings.-Dr. Bryce Haynes (planetary ecologist assigned to study Duneworld)
Give as few orders as possible, his father had told him once long ago. Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts.
Grabežljivac poboljšava vrstu.
Growing older is to grow more wicked.
He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose.
He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response—never to forgive and never to forget.
Holiness has replaced love in your religion!
Hope clouds observation.
How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!
I am not the river I am the net.
I began with love and prayer, Moneo said. I changed to anger and rebellion. I was transformed into what you see before you. I recognize my duty and I do it.
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