When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past... but only feminine avenues... Yet there's a place no T...
The terrain enforced its own rhythms.
The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For...
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.
One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
Good governance 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...
Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics acce...
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. —
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.
We will never forgive and we will never forget.
The universe is full of doors,
The Fremen have a simple, practical religion, he said.Nothing about religion is simple.
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into m...
I never thought it would be easy to serve God, she said. I just didn't think it would be this hard.
What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?
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...
Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.