And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.
All rebels are closet aristocrats. That’s why I can convert them so easily.
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows. To begin your study of the life of Maud'Dib, then, take care that...
A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.
It occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of...
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.
There are many kinds of ignorance, Streggi. The basest is to follow your own desires without examining them. Sometimes, we do it unconsciously. Hone your sensitivity. Be aware of what you do unconscio...
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. I already know the important things!we sa...
The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.
The past is no farther away than your pillow.
The omnipresent enemy was the —that total absence of the things to support life that emptiness called space. It was evil and they feared it—constantly. A rod and staff might comfort in the presence of...
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative:
The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.
Stilgar put a hand on Idaho’s shoulder. All men are interlopers, old friend.
Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balan...
Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!
Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.