Children of Dune (Dune #3)

by Frank Herbert

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.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”

There’s no mystery about a human life. It’s not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

humans are seldom alerted to the shifting average through a great span of years. And it is precisely in this alerting that humans learn how to survive on any planet. They must learn climate.