Bene Gesserit Quotes

#1. The expectations of civilized society should afford all the protection a person needs. But that armor is rendered as thin as a tissue when one is dealing with the uncivilized. -Bene Gesserit Archives

Brian Herbert

#2. Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.

Frank Herbert

#3. We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.

Frank Herbert

#4. Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.

Frank Herbert

#5. We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

Frank Herbert

#6. There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

Frank Herbert

#7. You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

Frank Herbert

#8. Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda

Frank Herbert

#9. If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken (Bene Gesserit axiom).

Frank Herbert

#10. The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. - Bene Gesserit Precept I

Brian Herbert

#11. We could build a boat, you and I, and sail to the moon and back.

Mette Jakobsen

#12. They say that sometimes a man cannot recognize himself in a looking-glass. It is even harder to recognize oneself in the clouded mirror of the past.

Ilya Ehrenburg

#13. conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my

Herman Melville

#14. I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.

Bill Murray

#15. Hey, Nana ...
people's feelings change easily ...
what you see is a house of cards ...
nothing's sure,
and nothing lasts forever.

Ai Yazawa

#16. Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Frank Herbert

#17. Abe Foxman has been a friend and advisor of mine for a long time.

Joe Biden

#18. I was a puzzle. An enigma. I was nothing. And then I was again.

Daniel Xiao Wang

#19. Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#20. Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'

Russell Howard