Dune Quotes
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Unofficial bot that spits out a random quote from Frank Herbert's Dune books, even though spit is a terrible waste of water. By @thatjasonweiser
Muad'Dib was disinherited and he spoke for the disinherited of all time. He cried out against that profound injustice which alienates the individual from that which he was taught to believe, from that which seemed to come to him as a right.
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
"Rules build up fortifications behind which small minds create satrapies. A perilous state of affairs in the best of times, disastrous during crises."
Who asks for justice? We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis— win or die.
Did he predict or did he create? Prescience can be deadly.
"The three legs of the agreement-tripod are desire, data and doubt. Accuracy and honesty have nothing to do with it. … Desire brings the participants together. Data sets the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames their questions."
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit
Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment often is more potent. It can guide reactions whose effects are felt only when too late to divert them.
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.
Arrakis could be an Eden if its rulers would look up from grubbing for spice!
The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
"On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul."
Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws.