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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the end of holiness for both churches.
From The White Plague
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Governments, 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 class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual
From Children of Dune
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The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
From Dune
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
From Dune
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
From Dune
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When 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.
From Dune
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
From God Emperor of Dune
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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
From Dune
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Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.
From Dune Messiah
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
From Dune
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Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
From Dune Messiah
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The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.
“Nothing about religion is simple.
From Dune
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To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
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They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
From Dune Messiah
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
From Dune
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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
From Dune
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My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!
From God Emperor of Dune
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Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
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There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.
From Dune
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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
From Dune
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A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
From Dune
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There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
From Dune
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the end of holiness for both churches.
From The White Plague
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Governments, 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 class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual
From Children of Dune
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The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
From Dune
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
From Dune
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
From Dune
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When 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.
From Dune
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
From God Emperor of Dune
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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
From Dune
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Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.
From Dune Messiah
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
From Dune
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Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
From Dune Messiah
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The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.
“Nothing about religion is simple.
From Dune
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To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
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They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
From Dune Messiah
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
From Dune
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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
From Dune
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My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!
From God Emperor of Dune
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Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
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There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.
From Dune
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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
From Dune
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A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
From Dune
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There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
From Dune
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the end of holiness for both churches.
From The White Plague
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Governments, 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 class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual
From Children of Dune
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The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
From Dune
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
From Dune
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Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
From Dune
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When 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.
From Dune
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
From God Emperor of Dune
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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
From Dune
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Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.
From Dune Messiah
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
From Dune
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Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
From Dune Messiah
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The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.
“Nothing about religion is simple.
From Dune
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To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
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They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
From Dune Messiah
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
From Dune
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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
From Dune
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My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!
From God Emperor of Dune
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Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
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There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.
From Dune
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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
From Dune
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A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
From Dune
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There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
From Dune
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