“When I set out to lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their bones would remember. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quite, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.”
____-Leto II, The God Emperor, Frank Herburt, “Chapterhouse Dune.”
Rules build up fortifications behind which small minds create satrapies. A perilous state of affairs in the best of times, disastrous during crisis.
____-Bene Gesserit Coda, Frank Herburt, “Chapterhouse Dune.”
“We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.”
____-Bene Gesserit Coda, Frank Herburt, “Chapterhouse Dune.”
“You cannot manipulate a marionette with only one string.”
____-The Zensunni Whip, Frank Herburt, “Chapterhouse Dune.”
Frank Herburt is much better with words than I, Just like I would not go preaching the bible without quoting Jesus, I cannot restate what Herbert says without using his own words.
Caio-