You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

I am not the river I am the net.

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.