Harkonnen Quotes

#1. The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But

Frank Herbert

#2. Each of us influences the actions of the people we know. - XAVIER HARKONNEN,

Brian Herbert

#3. Baron Vladimir Harkonnen had made a lifetime career of seeking new experiences. He dabbled in hedonistic pleasures - rich foods, exotic drugs, deviant sex - discovering things he had never done before.
But a baby in Harkonnen Keep ... how would he handle that?

Brian Herbert

#4. It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. - GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It

Brian Herbert

#5. Come, come," the Baron said. "We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke." The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. "Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise."
"Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron.

Frank Herbert

#6. Humph! Just protect yourself. Quianna's told me stories that I'd love to report to the CDC." "Unnecessary,

Chicki Brown

#7. People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

Steven Pinker

#8. If I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of Calvary's love

Amy Carmichael

#9. Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat."
-Piter De Vries

Frank Herbert

#10. Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys ...

John Dryden

#11. I wish the death of one could bring back another.

Alyse M. Gardner

#12. Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law. Always do it for an overriding purpose - and know your purpose!

Frank Herbert

#13. The spokesman smiled. Ah, but, Kruppe, Gifts are not easily attained, nor are Virtues, nor are Doubts easily overcome, and Hungers are ever the impetus to climbing.

Steven Erikson

#14. Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.

Steve Maraboli

#15. It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination of a novelist, Marguerite Yourcenar, to create the broadest, the most balanced and in many ways the most authentic interpretation of the affair.

Royston Lambert

#16. Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he ... I swear he takes a positive delight in it."
-Baron Vladimir

Frank Herbert

#17. Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err.
-Baron Vladimir

Frank Herbert