They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

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

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

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

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.