More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Radicals always see matters in terms which are too simple—black and white, good and evil, them and us. By addressing complex matters in that way, they rip open a passage for chaos. The art of government as you call it, is the mastery of chaos.”
all-male army has a strong tendency toward homosexual activities.”
when it breaks out of the adolescent-homosexual restraints, the male army is essentially rapist. Rape is often murderous and that’s not survival behavior.”
“Even losers can shroud themselves in the proud mantle of ‘the past,’
Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve.
“This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it’s too late to make corrections.”
They always look for genitalia, Leto thought. Perhaps I should have something made, a gross protuberance to shock them.
“Religious institutions perpetuate a mortal master-servant relationship,” Leto said. “They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!”
“it’s perfectly normal for adolescent females as well as males to have feelings of physical attraction toward members of their own sex.
“All of us try to evolve, but if something blocks us, we can transfer our potential into pain—seeking it or giving it.
prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won’t believe in you!”
“The three legs of the agreement-tripod are desire, data and doubt.
“Stroke it gently,” he said.
He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”
