“Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.”

― Frank Herbert

“We are the people of Misr,” the old woman rasped. “Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die.”

― Frank Herbert

“Once 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.”

― Frank Herbert

“Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.”

― Frank Herbert

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”

― Frank Herbert

“The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn’t they?”

― Frank Herbert

“My father rules an entire planet." "He's losing it.”

― Frank Herbert

“She didn’t like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad’Dib as Him.”

― Frank Herbert

“Somewhere beneath him, the pre-spice mass had accumulated enough water and organic matter from the little makers, had reached the critical stage of wild growth. A gigantic bubble of carbon dioxide was forming deep in the sand, heaving upward in an enormous “blow” with a dust whirlpool at its center. It would exchange what had been formed deep in the sand for whatever lay on the surface.

― Frank Herbert

“Shield!” the old woman snapped. “You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he’ll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.”

― Frank Herbert

“A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.”

― Frank Herbert

“The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.”

― Frank Herbert

“They’d never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.”

― Frank Herbert

“Power and fear," he said. "The tools of statecraft.”

― Frank Herbert

“We will never forgive and we will never forget,”

― Frank Herbert


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