A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.
You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
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.
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
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 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.
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.
The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation
Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
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.
Hope clouds observation.
Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
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 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.
Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.
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?
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