If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

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

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.