Muad'dib's Quotes

#1. I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?

Frank Herbert

#2. We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

Frank Herbert

#3. There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles.
Muad'Dib

Frank Herbert

#4. To quote from another gospel, DUNE by Frank Herbert, 'Fear is the mind-killer.' ... Jesus was the original Muad'dib.

Stephen Colbert

#5. Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now!

Frank Herbert

#6. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Frank Herbert

#7. The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?
Muad'Dib

Frank Herbert

#8. Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

Frank Herbert

#9. This marked the end of our toothbrush conversation.

Patrick DeWitt

#10. My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.

Frank Herbert

#11. Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

Kyle Bass

#12. You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.

Frank Herbert

#13. A few days later Kurt called him to say that Harry Hole had been sent to the front, to some God-forsaken place in Sweden. Brandhaug had literally rubbed his hands with glee.

Jo Nesbo

#14. Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends."
"That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.

Richelle Mead

#15. How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?" Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. "We call that one muad'dib," Stilgar said. Jessica

Frank Herbert

#16. I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.

Giorgio Armani

#17. The Night Sky is not just another planisphere. I think The Night Sky is the finest and easiest to use star finding aid in existence.

Jack Horkheimer

#18. Throughout my life, I have tried to share my philosophy that getting and staying healthy doesn't have to feel like work. I don't diet or slave away in a gym - what I do is make excellent food choices.

Suzanne Somers

#19. We stand in the awe of God's greatness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. My life is like the summer rose
That opens to the morning sky,
But ere the shades of evening close
Is scattered on the ground - to die.

Richard Henry Wilde

#21. Muad'dib rules everywhere," he said.
"Arrakis is not my destination," she insisted.
"Arrakis is the destination of everyone," he said.

Frank Herbert

#22. He thought: Jessica, mother of Muad'Dib and grandmother of these royal twins, returns to our planet today. Why does she end her self-imposed exile at this time? Why does she leave the softness and security of Caladan for the dangers of Arrakis?

Frank Herbert

#23. Is that the name you wish, Muad'Dib?" Stilgar asked. "I am an Atreides," Paul whispered, and then louder: "It's not right that I give up entirely the name my father gave me. Could I be known among you as Paul-Muad'Dib?" "You are Paul-Muad'Dib," Stilgar said. And

Frank Herbert

#24. Hatter, my love, we never got a chance to say good-bye.
Weaver

Frank Beddor

#25. There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Frank Herbert

#26. She didn't like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad'Dib as Him.

Frank Herbert

#27. There was a man so wise,
He jumped into
A sandy place
And burnt out both his eyes!
And when he knew his eyes were gone,
He offered no complaint.
He summoned up a vision
And made himself a saint.
-Children's Verse
from History of Muad'dib

Frank Herbert

#28. Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

Robert Sheckley

#29. Once more the drama begins.' - The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne.

Frank Herbert

#30. To resist a challenge is to resist life itself -Mogwat Of all challenges the greatest is to be yourself. Truth is often painful to speak but soothing to live.

Avi

#31. Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble." O.C.

Frank Herbert

#32. It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.

Frank Herbert

#33. On my own, the ordinariness of the moment is almost too much to stand. I glance around the restaurant, taking in the faces of the waiters, the customers. Two dozen noisy conversations mixing into a kind of meaningless roar. I think, What if you people knew what I knew? -

Blake Crouch

#34. What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Frank Herbert

#35. Absolute freedom is an illusion. For while an employed man might be free from starvation, he is a slave to his employer's financial aspirations, and, working-hours.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana