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House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1) QUOTES

House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1) QUOTES

1 " It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

2 " Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

3 " In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

4 " Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

5 " Address the solvable first, instructs the father by way of teaching his son crisis management. That way, he counsels, there is less distraction to tackle more daunting issues. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

6 "  ‘I must not fear,’ ” she intoned, her eyes closed. “ ‘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.’ ” It "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

7 " A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. — FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

8 " The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

9 " Brilliant, Piter! I'm glad I didn't execute you all those times when you were so annoying.'

'So am I,' de Vries said. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

10 " Hatred is as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for either one is the capacity for its opposite. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

11 " If you are born to power, you must prove you deserve it through good works—or give it up. To do any less is to act without conscience. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

12 " The working Planetologist has access to many resources, data, and projections. However, his most important tools are human beings. Only by cultivating ecological literacy among the people themselves can he save an entire planet. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

13 " Even innocents carry within them their own guilt in their own way. No one survives through life without paying in one fashion or another. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

14 " Kwisatz Haderach: “Shortening of the Way.” This is the label applied by the Bene Gesserit to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution: a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

15 " The Butlerian Jihad has been over for thousands of years, and still humankind acts as if we’re terrified rodents hiding from shadows. There is an anti-Ixian prejudice throughout the Imperium because we make complex machines. People don’t understand what we do, and misunderstanding breeds suspicion. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

16 " The idea of a Kwisatz Haderach had been the Sisterhood’s dream for thousands upon thousands of years, conceived in dark underground meetings even before the victory of the Jihad. The Bene Gesserit had many breeding programs aimed at selecting and enhancing various characteristics of humanity, and no one understood them all. But the genetic lines of the messiah project had been the most carefully guarded secret for much of the Imperium’s recorded history, so secret in fact that even the voices in Other Memory refused to divulge the details. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

17 " In response to the strict Butlerian taboo against machines that perform mental functions, a number of schools developed enhanced human beings to subsume most of the functions formerly performed by computers. Some of the key schools arising out of the Jihad include the Bene Gesserit with their intense mental and physical training, the Spacing Guild with the prescient ability to find a safe path through foldspace, and the Mentats, whose computerlike minds are capable of extraordinary acts of reasoning. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

18 " Although the Spacing Guild had no military power of its own, it could—through withdrawal of transportation services—cripple any solar system. And with elaborate surveillance mechanisms, the Guild could trace and identify rogue attackers and send messages off to the Emperor, who in turn would dispatch Imperial Sardaukar according to mutual treaty. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

19 " The Empire functions beyond mere laws,” Paulus continued. “An equally strong foundation is the network of alliances, favors, and religious propaganda. Beliefs are more powerful than facts. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)

20 " I thought that Navigators just saw the way, a safe way. Holtzman generators actually move the spacecraft.” He decided to add a quote he remembered from the Bible. “‘The highest master in the material world is the human mind, and the beasts of the field and the machines of the city must be forever subordinate. "

― Brian Herbert , House Atreides (Prelude to Dune #1)