A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

Madness in method, that's genius

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.