“Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
“The Industrial Revolution is primarily a virus revolution, dedicated to proliferation of identical objects and persons. You are making soap, you don't give a shit who buys your soap, the more the soapier.”
― The Place of Dead Roads
― The Place of Dead Roads
“One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.”
― Dune
― Dune
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”
― The Poetics of Space
― The Poetics of Space
“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
― Dune
― Dune
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