dune house harkonnen quotes

The individual is shocked by the overwhelming discovery of his own mortality.
The species, however, is different. It need not die.

-PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer

Heaven must be the sound of running water.

-Fremen Saying

An empire built on power cannot attract the affections and loyalty that men
bestow willingly on a regime of ideas and beauty. Adorn your Grand Empire with
beauty, with culture.

-From a speech by CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO: L'Institut de Kaitain Archives

The individual is the key, the final effective unit of all biological processes.

-PARDOT KYNES

Enemies strengthen you; allies weaken.

-EMPEROR ELROOD IX, Deathbed Insights

There is no such thing as a law of nature. There is only a series of laws
relating to man's practical experience with nature. These are laws of man's
activities. They change as man's activities change.

-PARROT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer

Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions, which have been
similar throughout the ages. One such condition is a permanent state of
alertness to ward off attack. Another is the rule of the autocrat.

-CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall of Unjust
Governments

There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgments.

-Bene Gesserit Axiom

Water is the image of life. We came from water, adapted from its
all-encompassing presence . . . and we continue to adapt.

-IMPERIAL PLANETOLOGIST PARDOT KYNES

Behold, O Man, you can create life. You can destroy life. But, lo, you have
no choice but to experience life. And therein lies both your greatest strength
and your greatest weakness.

-Orange Catholic Bible, Book of Kimla Septima, 5:3

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

-Bene Gesserit Axiom

If a man can accept his sin, he can live with it. If a man cannot accept
personal sin, he suffers unbearable consequences.

-Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text

The desert is a surgeon cutting away the skin to expose what is underneath.

-Fremen Saying

If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no
matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.

-DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may
perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

-Mentat Objective Analysis of Human Capabilities

Immobility is often mistaken for peace.

-EMPEROR ELROOD CORRINO IX

Nature has moved inexplicably backward and forward to produce this marvelous,
subtle Spice. One is tempted to suggest that only divine intervention could
possibly have produced a substance which in one aspect extends human life and
in another opens the inner doors of the psyche to the wonders of Time and
Creation.

-HIDAR FEN AJIDICA, Laboratory Notes on the Nature of Melange

You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!

-Fremen Lament

Before us, all methods of learning were tainted by instinct. Before us,
instinct-ridden researchers possessed a limited attention span -- often no
longer than a single lifetime. Projects stretching across fifty or more
generations never occurred to them. The concept of total muscle/nerve training
had not entered their awareness. We learned how to learn.

-Bene Gesserit Azhar Book

Infinity attracts us like a floodlight in the night, blinding us to the
excesses it can inflict upon the finite.

-Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text