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If you are born to power, you must prove you deserve it through good works -- or give it up. To do any less is to act without conscience.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
There is no man so blind as one who has made up his mind.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
One observes the survivors and learns from them.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
The mind commands the body and immediately it obeys. The mind orders itself, and meets resistance.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
An empire built on power cannot attract the affections and loyalty that men bestow willingly on a regime of ideas and beauty.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
The longer that dreams remained mere dreams, the more difficult it was to mold them into reality.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Wisdom is understanding when to ask questions.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Just because you have become accustomed to a thing, does not make it right.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tragedies.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
The enemy to be feared most is one who wears the face of a friend.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
We pay for every change we make ... and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
The populace must think their ruler is a greater man than they, else why should they follow him? Above all a leader must be a showman, giving his people the bread and circuses they require.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Dishonor is like a gash on a tree trunk -- instead of disappearing with age, it enlarges.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Better to listen to the wind ... than to waste time with the words of a fool.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Make cheer from your own heart, for the sun rises and sets according to your perspective on the universe.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Beliefs are more powerful than facts.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Learn to recognize the future the way a Steersman identifies guiding stars and corrects the course of his vessel. Learn from the past; never use it as an anchor.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Ceremonies cemented the impression that Humanity, not Chaos, reigned over the universe.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
You can only be successful if you let your mind go beyond the boundaries that other people have set for themselves.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Good leadership is largely invisible. When everything runs smoothly, no one notices.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Man is but a pebble dropped in a pool. And if man is but a pebble, then all his works can be no more.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Loyalty to an unjust cause is a perversion of honor.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
History allows us to see the obvious -- but unfortunately, not until it is too late.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all the universe -- that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each hour, each moment, there is change.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Without a goal, a life is nothing. Sometimes the goal becomes a man's entire life, an all-consuming passion. But once that goal is achieved, what then? Oh, poor man, what then?
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Wounds make better lessons than lectures.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
All persons are contained within a single individual, just as all time is in a moment, and the entire universe is in a grain of sand.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
Money was invented to spend.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
History demonstrates that the advancement of technology is not a steady upward curve. There are flat periods, upwards spurts, and even reversals.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
The tapestry of the universe is vast and complex, with infinite patterns. While threads of tragedy may form the primary weave, humanity with its undaunted optimism still manages to embroider small designs of happiness and love.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
To keep from dying is not the same as "to live."
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Truth is a chameleon.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
The less we know, the longer the explanation.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
Power deludes the ones who wield it.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Rumors are like a disease epidemic.... Once they escape, they spread from person to person, often with deadly effect. Better to take simple initial precautions than be forced into eradication measures at a later date.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Atreides
A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
In some situations there is no absolute good or evil, simply points of view.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Myths ... collected like barnacles on history, obscuring the truth.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
The intelligent machine is an evil genie, escaped from its bottle.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, The Butlerian Jihad
Life is an illusion to be tailored to our needs.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Harkonnen
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