No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero
You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. T...
Humans are almost always lonely.
Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself? Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter. Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh? Baron: Have you been chewi...
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
Conducătorul este unul dintre factorii care creează deosebirea dintre o gloată și un popor. Conducătorul trebuie să mențină nivelul indivizilor. Prea puțini indivizi... și un popor degenerează în gloată.
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
A world is supported by four things....the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayer of righteous and the valour of the brave. But all this are nothing...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.
He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat.
It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul’s place for him.
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
Apropierea unui lucru dorit înclină la prea multă îngăduință.
Rostit ori nerostit, un gând e o realitate și are putere.
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
