You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
We will never forgive and we will never forget.
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
My father rules an entire planet.He's losing it.
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan...
Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
Color streamed into a toe of darkness testing the sand.
Beginnings are such delicate times.
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.
You do not beg the sun for mercy.-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary
The terrain enforced its own rhythms.
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea…and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
I have said: Blow out the lamp! Day is here! And you keep saying: Give me a lamp so I can find the day.
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run.
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.