Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely. That’s
Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself. (Brian Herbert's Introduction)
Each of us is the enemy [...] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose.
Earth? Golden Age? Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?
Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you ro...
Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity. Odrade explaining. The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee t...
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. —
Flesh that had cried in ecstasy, eyes that had burned him with their desire, the voice that had charmed him because it played no tricks of subtle control—all gone, back into the water and the sand.
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The...
Governments may rise and fall for reasons which appear insignificant, Prince. What small events! An argument between two women . . . which way the wind blows on a certain day . . . a sneeze, a cough,...
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.
He found that he no longer could hate the Bene Gesserit or the Emperor or even the Harkonnens. They were all caught up in the need of their race to renew its scattered inheritance, to cross and mingle...
He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat.
He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose wa...
His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.
How the mind gears itself for its environment, she thought. And she recalled a Bene Gesserit axiom: The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think o...
In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term.
It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.
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...
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