- The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
- People say "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." My point is that power attracts the corruptible.
- [Dune] A popular man attracts the envy of the powerful.
- [Children of Dune] If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
- [Children of Dune] The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.
- [Children of Dune] Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class-whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- [Bene Gesserit Axiom] If you rely only on your eyes, all your other senses weaken.
- By his 15th year [Paul] had already learned Silence. [A History of Mu'ad Dib by the Princess Irulan]
- [Axiom of the Butlerian Jihad] Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a Human Mind.
- Arrakis teaches the attitude of the Knife, saying: Now it is finished, because it ends there.
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