But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll wr...
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
Hold at your neck the gom jabbar, she said. The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It’s a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don’t pull away or you’ll feel that poison.
You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the...
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent -- he solves.
Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.
That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.
Sir, I honor and respect the personal dignity of any man who respects my dignity.
Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
Only those who recognize the value of war and exercise it have any degree of self-determination.
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some . Always do it for an overriding purpose—and !
Neki događaji imaju kraj, ali nemaju početak; drugi započinju, ali ne završe. Sve to ovisi o točki na kojoj promatrač stoji.
Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.
Limits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which a generation may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate which set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe cli...
It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…
It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities, Leto said. This … rhetorical despotism, Lord? Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are p...
In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness.
I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?