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Dune Quotes
“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.”
“What is the son but an extension of the father?”
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power.”
“You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard for those who come after.”
Dune Genesis Quotes
“Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem.”
“It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.”
Dune Messiah Quotes
“An offer is only as good as the real thing it buys.’”
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
“Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”
“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.”
“Four things cannot be hidden — love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.”
“Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”
“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”
“Only gods can safely risk perfection... it's a dangerous thing for a man.”
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“The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.”
“Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality and fall.”
“Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.”
“The dice cannot read their own spots.”
“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.”
“To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.”
“Truth suffers from too much analysis.”
“Was it defeat to choose a lesser evil?”
“When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.”
“Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.”
God Emperor of Dune Quotes
“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”
“Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken you.”
“Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.”
“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.”
“If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.”
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“A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation.”
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Frank Herbert Sources
- All quotes by Frank Herbert (180 quotes)
- Chapterhouse: Dune (13 quotes)
- Children of Dune (24 quotes)
- Dune (68 quotes)
- Dune Genesis (2 quotes)
- Dune Messiah (17 quotes)
- God Emperor of Dune (22 quotes)
- Heretics of Dune (5 quotes)
- Man's Future in Space (1 quote)
- New World or No World (2 quotes)
- Science Fiction and a World in Crisis (1 quote)
- The Godmakers (1 quote)
- The Green Brain (1 quote)
- Whipping Star (1 quote)
- Without Me, You're Nothing (1 quote)
- Other quotes by Frank Herbert (21 quotes)