Tag: Dune
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Quote – A Standard by Which To Choose Company
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in Quotes“You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.” Duncan quoting a saying to Siona Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
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Quote – Destroy the Place and You Destroy the Person
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in QuotesHumans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person. Bene Gesserit teaching Frank Herbert, Heretics… Read More
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Quote – Something Few Experience
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in Quotes“We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.” Leto II regarding his relationship with Hwi, to Duncan and Siona Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
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Quote – Most Civilization is Based on Cowardice
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in QuotesMost civilization is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a… Read More
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Quote – The Illusion That Courts and Police Are Effective
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in Quotes“[…] Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.” Leto Atreides II to Duncan Idaho Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
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Quote – The Universe Is a Coherent Whole
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in QuotesChurch and State, scientific reason and faith, the individual and his community, even progress and tradition–all of these can be reconciled in the teachings of Muad’Dib. He taught us that there exist no intransigent opposites except in the beliefs of… Read More
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Quote – Limits of Survival Are Set by Climate
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in QuotesLimits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which a generation may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate which set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe climatic provinces, fluctuations of annual… Read More
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Quote – Tend to the Wolf Within Your Fences
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in QuotesThe one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. The Azhar Book; Shamra… Read More
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Quote – You Seldom Find Real Loyalties in Commerce
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in QuotesWhat 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… Read More
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Quote – Politics as Repeat Phenomenon
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in QuotesGovernments, 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… Read More