Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now. I just do not fool myself about Thufir’s methods.
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.
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.
Can you remember your first taste of spice?” “It tasted like cinnamon.
I hold at your neck the gom jabbar,” she said. “The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It’s a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don’t pull away or you’ll feel that poison.
How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.
This is the fallacy of power: ultimately, it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.
Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of her voice contained a difference than from any other voicing his experience. The words were outlined in brilliance. There was an edge to them.
The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data – significant results.
There’s coffee for those who want it,′ the Duke said.
He was aware now of many things – of statecraft and profound consequences in the smallest decisions. Yet he felt this knowledge and subtlety as a thin veneer covering an iron core of simpler, more deterministic awareness. And that older core called out to him, pleaded with him for a return to cleaner values.
Sir, I honor and respect the personal dignity of any man who respects my dignity.
It’s an old, old trick of autocratic rule,” Idaho said. “Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity,’ he said. ‘They say: “Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
All around the Lady Jessica – piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces – stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases – some partly unpacked.
Every man carries his own past with him,” Hayt said.
The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn’t tell them?
You must cultivate ecological literacy among the people.
All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats. That’s why I can convert them so easily. Why.