Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you a cover up. Real boats rock. Darwi Odrade
Observing
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. Darwi Odrade
Administrators
The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices … [that] usually can be made to work. The Stolen Journals – Leto II
Single individuals
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions
Of life
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
Power pathology
Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
The Changer
We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. “I already know the important things!” we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away. The Zensufi Master
Entrapment
Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything. Hayt, the ghola Sursa
Create
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious. Allow for surprises. When we create, there are always other forces at work. Darwi Odrade Sursa Darwi
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
I must not fear. 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
Achtung!
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. Darwi Odrade, DUNE