It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

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

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.