We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of...
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.
At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable...
You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you.
The Fremen have a simple, practical religion, he said.Nothing about religion is simple.
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing wo...
Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it, she said.And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than m...
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of ob...
What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpr...
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?
Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.