We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
Beaurocracy destroys initiative.
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
The real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.
We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.
Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!
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