“What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.”
― Dune
― Dune
“When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.”
― Dune
― Dune
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero”
― Dune
― Dune
“Our civilization appears to’ve fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.”
― Dune
― Dune
“The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.”
― Dune
― Dune
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