Quotes About Legacy

Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

History holds its own court and delivers its own judgements,' he said. 'I doubt that I'll be concerned when my judgement's handed down.

there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind.

He nodded. "Yes. They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.' Yes…that's what they'll call me." And he closed his eyes, thinking: Now, my father, I can mourn you. And he felt the tears coursing down his cheeks.

How soon this child must assume his manhood, Halleck thought. How soon he must read that form within his mind, that contract of brutal caution, to enter the necessary fact on the necessary line: 'Please list your next of kin.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis [...] You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

The expectations which history creates for one generation are often shattered in the next generation.

O filho que se recusa a seguir jornada sob a tutela do pai constitui o símbolo da mais peculiar capacidade humana. Não tenho de ser o que meu pai foi. Não tenho de obedecer às regras do meu pai e nem acreditar em tudo que ele acreditou. É minha força como humano poder fazer minhas próprias escolhas a respeito daquilo em que acreditar ou não, a respeito do que ser e do que não ser.

Your Kwisatz Haderach?" "Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the Kwisatz Haderach. Many men have tried the drug…so many, but none has succeeded." "They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.

O sistema histórico de pilhagem e extorsão mútuas tem um fim aqui em Arrakis. Não se pode seguir roubando aquilo de que se precisa sem pensar naqueles que virão depois. As características físicas de um planeta estão escritas em seu registro econômico e político.

the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

Si siempre me comporto como es debido sin tener en cuenta lo que me cueste suprimir mis propios deseos, eso es lo único que quedará de mí.

how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.

Frank Herbert

la Reverenda Madre.

This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

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

Perhaps you are the Kwisatz Haderach. Sit down, little brother, here at my feet." "I prefer to stand." "Your mother sat at my feet once." "I'm not my mother." "You hate us a little, eh?

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them.

They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.

We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?