Quotes from Frank Herbert

There's another thing, Jessica thought. Paul must be cautioned about their women. One of these desert women would not do as wife to a Duke. As concubine, yes, but not as wife.

he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation." —

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Paul stepped past her, lifting his binoculars. He adjusted their internal pressure with a quick twist, focused the oil lenses on the other cliff, lifting golden tan in morning light across open sand. Jessica

Muad'dib's Jihad was less than an eye-blink in this larger movement. The Bene Gesserit swimming in this tide, that corporate entity trading in genes, was trapped in the torrent as he was. Visions of a falling moon must be measured against other legends, other visions in a universe where even the seemingly eternal stars waned, flickered, died . . . What mattered a single moon in such a universe? Far

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people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.

I think you are a little afraid because you suspect what I suspect - that there was no natural disaster. They did it themselves, to themselves. If this is their own sad handiwork, ... what are our chances of finding friends among people so much to be feared?

Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock. And there were ways to open any palm lock—as she had learned at school.

The gift is the blessing of the giver.

They've also sent some incidental things—jewelry for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals. My men are processing the lot right now.

Reason arises from pride that a man may not know in this way when he has done evil.

Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble." O.C.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…

You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me." The

Durmak diye düÅŸündü. Dinlenmek... gerçekten dinlenmek. MutluluÄŸun durabilmek, bir anl???na da olsa durabilmek olduÄŸunu fark etti. Durman?n mümkün olmad??? yerde mutluluk da olmazd?.

Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow.

Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now. I just do not fool myself about Thufir's methods.

Stuff that into your womb and give birth to it elsewhere!

We pray to a moon: she is round— Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.

No conoceréis al miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Sólo estaré yo.

They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.

We don't die easily. I should be dead now... I will be dead soon... but I can't stop being an ecologist.