Quotes About Balance

We don't need any more Atreides gods! We need a space for some humanity!

Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind.

The more control, the more that requires control. This is the road to chaos. — PanSpechi aphorism

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that

As you well know, the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error.

Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate.

If one delays old age or death by the use of melange or by that learned adjustment of fleshly balance which you Bene Gesserits so rightly fear, such a delay invokes only an illusion of control. Whether one walks rapidly through the sietch or slowly, one traverses the sietch. And that passage of time is experienced internally.

ecology was the science of understanding consequences.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

You understand? One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Uno no debe arriesgarlo todo por liquidar prematuramente una cuenta

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.

extinct…the animal destroys and does not produce…animal

You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life.

Existe un límite a la fuerza que hasta los más poderosos pueden aplicar sin destruirse a sí mismos. Calcular dicho límite es el auténtico arte de gobernar. El mal uso del poder es un pecado fatal. La ley no puede ser un instrumento de venganza, nunca un rehén y tampoco un refugio contra los mártires que ha creado. Uno no puede amenazar a un individuo y librarse de las consecuencias. Muad'Dib sobre la ley, Comentarios de Stilgar

He was reminded that the more he ordered the weather controlled, the more there was that required control. Absolutes only brought him closer to vagaries.

Ich habe eine ausgleichende Funktion wahrzunehmen, und muss gleichzeitig darauf achten, dass die individuelle Entwicklung des Einzelnen einen positiven Verlauf nimmt. Wenn ein Volk nicht aus individuellen Charakteren besteht, ist es kein Volk, sondern ein Mob.

Everywhere there is peace, Paul thought. Everywhere … except in the heart of Muad'dib.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

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

Moneo's eyes went wide with a sudden questioning awareness. He had seen the action of many polarities—the thing made known by its opposite.

What's your definition of sanity, Skipper?' 'The ability to swim,' said Sparrow. Ramsey felt a cold shock, as though he had been immersed suddenly in freezing water. He had to force himself to continue breathing normally. As though from a great distance, he heard Sparrow's voice: 'That means the sane person has to understand currents, has to know what's required in different waters.' Ramsey