Taraza cleared her throat. No need. Lucilla is one of our finest Imprinters. Each of you, of course, received the identical liberal conditioning to prepare you for this. There was something almost ins...
Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. P...
Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.
Power and fear, he said. The tools of statecraft.
People aren’t concerned with love; it’s too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. We can’t have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable?
Paul shrugged. Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world’s language, that it’s different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn’t speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn’t...
One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.
Oholi podižu bedeme oko sebe iza kojih pokušavaju sakriti svoje sumnje i strahove.
Nepoznato se u svakom trenutku nalazi posvuda uokolo. Tu treba tražiti znanje.
Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. —Darwi Odrade
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their job security.
It's a beautiful morning, Sire, the guard saidYes, it is.The Duke nodded, thinking: Perhaps this planet could grow on one. Perhaps it could ba a good home for my son.Then he saw the human figures movi...
I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil...
I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself, Paul said. I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say Look! I have no hands! But the pe...
How do we approach the study of Muad’Dib’s father? A man of surpassing warmth and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Be...
Don't sit with your back to any doors.
Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!
Chaos is no surprise. It has predictable characteristics. For one thing, it carries away order and strengthens the forces at the extremes.
But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth. -Dr.Yueh