Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026One of us had to accept the agony, and he was always the stronger. 0131
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Hydraulic despotism: central control of an essential energy [...] Obey the central controlling power or the energy is shut off and you die! 093
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Time does not count itself. You have only to look at a circle and this is apparent. 0127
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. 0162
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment often is more potent. It can guide reactions whose effects are felt only when too late to divert them. 0134
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words. 074
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. 0133
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. 0136
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Sacred! As with all things sacred, it gives with one hand and takes with the other. 071
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. 0294125
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. 080
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind. 02211
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Some actions have an end but no beginning; some begin but do not end. It all depends upon where the observer is standing. 071
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026The people in the name of Muad'dib! They make love in my name, are born in my name—cross the street in my name. A roof beam cannot be raised in the lowliest hovel of far Gangishree without invoking the blessing of Muad'dib! 072
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn 1207
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026If there is no enemy, one must be invented. The military force which is denied an external target always turns against its own people. 0156
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026[They] had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation. 082
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping. 074
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. 083
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it & then only under conditions that increase the reluctance 0146
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026How soothing it is to forget. And how dangerous! 0103
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Another Festival so soon?' the Lord Leto asked. 'It has been ten years,' the majordomo said. Do you think by this exchange that the Lord Leto betrays an ignorance of time's passage? 021
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. 084
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. 0102
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? 0229
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing? 093
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition 0130
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together! 0145
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. 151
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? 0120
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Four things cannot be hidden — love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled. 041
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026"He told you that completion equals death!" The Preacher shouted. "Absolute prediction is completion...is death!" 091
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them. 074
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame. 0102
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026When law and religious duty are one, your selfdom encloses the Universe. 083
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Be cautious. Allow for surprises. When we create, there are always other forces at work. 0145
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die. 1137
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history 051
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. When did you last hear of a clerk giving his life for the company? Perhaps your deficiency rests in the false assumption that you can order men to cooperate. 052
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026"On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul." 1112
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 14/05/2026This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. 0115
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The powerful want a 'safe line of investigations,' which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled 043
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Muad'Dib set himself the task of integrating genetic memory into ongoing evaluation. Thus did he break through Time's veils, making a single thing of the future and the past. 051
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. 095
Dune Quotes @dunequotes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe. 0103