Dune (Dune #1)

by Frank Herbert

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. “Something cannot emerge from nothing,” he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable “the truth” can be. —FROM “CONVERSATIONS WITH MUAD’DIB” BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero,” his father said.