God Emperor of Dune Quotes

“When I set out to lead humankind along my Golden Path I promised them a lesson their bones would remember. I know a profound pattern which humans deny with their words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak. they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. If they find their quiet security, they squirm in it. How boring they find it. Look at them now. Look at what they do while I record these words. Hah! I give them enduring eons of enforced tranquility which plods on and on despite their every effort to escape into chaos. Believe me, the memory of Leto's Peace shall abide with them forever. They will seek their quiet security thereafter only with extreme caution and steadfast preparation”.

-The Stolen Journals — God Emperor of Dune”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“There's a time, Leto, a time when you're alive. A time when you're supposed to be alive. It can have a magic, that time, while you're living it. You know you're never going to see a time like that again.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“People will try to understand me and to frame me in their words. They will seek truth. But the truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“More mumbo jumbo.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune