Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

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.

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