Power and fear,” he said. “The tools of statecraft.
Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
I must rule with eye and claw – as the hawk among lesser birds. – Duke Leto Atreides.
Most humans are not strong enough to find freedom within.” Sister.
We will never forgive and we will never forget.
How do we approach the study of Muad’Dib’s father? A man of surpassing warmth and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Bene Gesserit lady; the dreams he held for his son; the devotion with which men served him. You see him there – a man snared by Destiny, a lonely figure with his light dimmed behind the glory of his son. Still, one must ask: What is the son but an extension of the father?
How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.
Flesh that had cried in ecstasy, eyes that had burned him with their desire, the voice that had charmed him because it played no tricks of subtle control – all gone, back into the water and the sand.
Axiom: the best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You’re stronger. Trust your stillsuit.” She.
In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.
What’s a gom jabbar?
My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.
There is the difference between us,” he said. “You are God embodied. You walk around within the greatest miracle of this universe, yet you refuse to touch or see or feel or believe in it.
Religion suppresses curiosity.
It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.
He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.
They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
When your opponent fears you, then’s the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.
Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.