Dune Quotes

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2024-12-12 15:44:26 UTC

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.

2024-12-10 15:44:38 UTC

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit.

2024-12-09 18:44:26 UTC

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

2024-12-01 12:44:22 UTC

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

2024-11-25 21:44:32 UTC

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

2024-11-18 18:44:29 UTC

Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.

2024-11-11 21:45:40 UTC

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

2024-11-05 21:44:53 UTC

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

2024-10-31 09:44:08 UTC

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.

2024-09-29 21:44:22 UTC

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

2024-09-28 18:44:10 UTC

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

2024-09-15 21:44:04 UTC

There is no escape – we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

2024-09-11 15:44:07 UTC

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

2024-08-11 21:43:57 UTC

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

2024-08-01 12:43:50 UTC

It is said of Muad’Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks

2024-08-01 09:43:52 UTC

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

2024-07-30 21:43:56 UTC

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.