There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

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

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?