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Bene Gesserit sayings
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REVEREND MOTHER
I hold at your neck the gom jabbar. Don't
pull away or you'll feel that poison. A Duke's
son must know about many poisons --
this one kills only animals.
PAUL
Are you suggesting a Duke's son is an animal?
REVEREND MOTHER
Let us say I suggest you may be human.
Your awareness may be powerful enough tocontrol
your instincts. |
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"I must not fear. Fear is
the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death
that brings total obliteration. I will face
my fear. I will permit it to pass over me
and through me. And when it has gone past
I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, Dune
- Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden
judgment often is more potent. It can guide
reactions whose effects are felt only when too
late to divert them.
- These are illusions of popular history which
a successful religion must promote: Evil men
never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair;
honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder
than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed
is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed;
religious talismans protect one from demon possession;
only females understand the ancient mysteries;
the rich are doomed to unhappiness.
Instruction Manual: Missionaria Protectiva
Children of Dune
- Those who would repeat the past must control
the teaching of history.
Bene Gesserit Coda, Chapterhouse:Dune
- We tend to become like the worst in those
we oppose.
Bene Gesserit Coda, Chapterhouse:Dune
- There's no secret to balance. You just have
to feel the waves.
Darwi Odrade, Chapterhouse: Dune
- We witness a passing phrase of eternity. Important
things happen but some people never notice.
Accidents intervene. You are not present at
episodes. You depend on reports. And people
shutter their minds. What good are reports?
History in a news account? Preselected at an
editorial conference, digested and excreted
by prejudice? Accounts you need seldom come
from those who make history. Diaries, memoirs
and autobiographies are subjective forms of
special pleading. Archives are crammed with
such suspect stuff
Darwi Odrade, Chapterhouse: Dune
- If you believe certain words, you believe
their hidden arguments. When you believe something
is right or wrong, true of flase, you believe
the assumptions in the words which express the
arguments. Such assumptions are often full of
holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
The Open-Ended Proof from The Panoplia Prophetica
,Children of Dune
- At the age of fifteen, he had already learned
silence.
A Child's History of Muad'Dib" by the Princess
Irulan, Dune
- Here lies a toppled god
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and tall one.
Tleilaxu Epigram , Dune Messiah
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