Quotes from DUNE Messiah by Frank Herbert
Quotes from DUNE Messiah by Frank Herbert

Quotes from DUNE Messiah by Frank Herbert

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.