Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3

by Frank Herbert

“One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule.”

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

obtuseness.

akimbo.

effrontery?

What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?”

One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier . . . including one’s own ignorance.

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals.

I am words! Such words as the lightning which strikes from the sand in a dark sky.

You leave tracks as clear as those of a bird in mud.”

“Now we are down to bedrock,” Bijaz said. “I know you feel it. And these are the power-words to manipulate you . . . I think they will have sufficient leverage.”

“we are so money-rich and so life-poor.

But my hands are blue with time.

To compete is to prepare for failure.

THIS

He strides through the long cavern of time, Scattering the fool-self of his dream. —THE GHOLA’S HYMN

End of Book 2

He believed that charismatic leaders could be dangerous because they could lead their followers off the edge of a cliff.

What good was served by calling up old lifetimes and rubbing their mistakes together?

“The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their doubts and fears.”