Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.