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Muad'Dib to his Fedaykin
Children of Dune 179

O Paul, thou Muad'Dib,
Mahdi of all men,
Thy breath exhaled
Sent forth the huricen.
Songs of Muad'Dib
Children of Dune 259

Humankind periodically goes through a speedup of its affairs, thereby experiencing the race between the renewable vitality of the living and the beckoning vitiation of decadence. In this periodic race, any pause becomes luxury. Only then can one reflect that all is permitted; all is possible.
The Apocrypha of Muad'Dib
Children of Dune 276

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in the commerce. When did you last hear of a clerk giving his life for the company? Perhaps your deficiency rests in the false assumption that you can order men to think and cooperate. This has been a failure of everything from religions to general staffs throughout history. General staffs have a long record of destroying their own nations. As to religions, I recommend a rereading of Thomas Aquinas. As to you of CHOAM, what nonsense you believe! Men must want to do things out of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness -- they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
A letter to CHOAM Attributed to the Preacher
Children of Dune 306


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Alia Atreides
The Fremen see her as the Earth Figure, a demi-goddess whose special charge is to protect the tribes through her powers of violence. She is Reverend Mother to their Reverend Mothers. To pilgrims who seeks her out with demands that she restore virility or make the barren fruitful, she is a form of antimentat. She feeds on that proof that the "analytic" has limits. She represents ultimate tension. She is the virgin-harlot -- witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.
St. Alia of the Knife
as taken from The Irulan Report
Dune Messiah 109

I think what a joy it is to be alive, and I wonder if I'll ever leap inward to the root of this flesh and know myself as one I was. The root is there. Whether any act of mine can find it, that remains tangled in the future. But all things a man can do are mine. Any act of mine may do it.
The Ghola Speaks
Alia's Commentary
Dune Messiah 157


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Stilgar, Fremen Naib
The advent of the Field Process shield and the lasgun with their deadly explosive interaction, deadly to attacker and attacked, placed the current determinatives on weapons technology. We need not go into the special role of atomics. The fact that any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetary bases of fifty or more other Families causes some nervousness, true. But all of us possess precautionary plans for devastating retaliation. Guild and Landsraad contain the keys which hold this force in check. No, my concern goes to the development of humans as special weapons. Here is a virtually unlimited field which a few powers are developing.
Muad'Dib: Lecture to the War College
from the Stilgar Chronicle
Dune Messiah 49

You do not beg the sun for mercy.
Muad'Dib's Travail
from the Stilgar Commentary
Dune Messiah 167

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.
Muad'Dib on Law
The Stilgar Commentary
Dune Messiah 289