“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Dune
― Dune
“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”
― Dune Messiah
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”
― Dune Messiah
“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.”
― Dune
― Dune
“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.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
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