Saturday, April 08, 2006

Frank Herbert - Dune

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises – no matter the mood. Mood’s a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It’s not for fighting.

Gurney Halleck (Page 48)

Knowing where the trap is – that is the first step to evading it.

Duke Leto Atreites

The Mind commands the Body and it obeys. The Mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Bene Gesserit Sister Jessica Quoting St Augustine

The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk

Duke Leto Atreites

When god hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place

Kynes (Page 150)

Human’s live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place, and destroy the person.

Thufir Hawat

One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt

Fremen

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

Princess Irulan

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