Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.