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A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.”
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.
Paul felt the diminishment of his self as he advanced into the center of the circle. It was as though he lost a fragment of himself and sought it here.
Fremen in the cathedral presence of water.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
“Guilt starts as a feeling of failure,”
“Hypno-ligation of that Feyd-Rautha’s psyche and his child in my womb—then we go.”
He felt that this Fremen world was fishing for him, trying to snare him in its ways.
Jessica recoiled, fearing she would become lost in an ocean of oneness.
need to steady himself against
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
leaving the strong to grow stronger—just
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.”
“Give as few orders as possible,” his father had told him … once… long ago. “Once you’ve given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
“Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.”
Thus the Padishah Emperor advises you. And he tells you: “If you want profits, you must rule.” There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: “Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?”
You can wait just so long. Then the dreariness of the waiting overcomes you.
She swept her gaze around the floor, avoiding Jessica’s eyes. “So many people tramping through here all the time. You really should have them cleaned more often.”
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste.
A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it’s almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed.”
And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.
yet he accepted
become
