You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.
Hope clouds observation.
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.
Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.
Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
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