What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.
The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.
There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.
Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.
What does a mirror look at?
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
Grief is the price of victory.
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.
That path leads ever down into stagnation.
Give me a lamp so I can find the day.
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.
We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.
“You may have eternity. I have only now.” “But this is eternity.”
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
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