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.

We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

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

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.