These are the quotes I noted while reading the second book in Frank Herbert’s 6-book Dune series, Dune Messiah.
- Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
- To come under siege… was the inevitable fate of power.
- Could it be that the Oracle didn’t tell the future? Could it be that the Oracle made the future?
- Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It’s when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
- What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
- You couldn’t say something boundless within the boundaries of any language.
- There exists a limit on force even the most powerful can apply without destroying themselves.