Frank Herbert, Dune
"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing."
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"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"We will never forgive and we will never forget."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero"
Frank Herbert, Dune
"Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"Hard tasks need hard ways."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?"
Frank Herbert, Dune
"A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"The hunter does not seek dead game."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself?Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter. Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh?Baron: Have you been chewing verite or semuta, Piter?"
Frank Herbert, Dune
"The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance."
Frank Herbert, Dune
"A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind."
Frank Herbert, Dune
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