Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.