Quotes About Muad'dib

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Frank Herbert

#6. 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

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

Stephen Colbert

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

Frank Herbert

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Frank Herbert

#13. 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

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

Frank Herbert

#15. 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

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

Frank Herbert

#17. 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

#18. I make ridiculous like I make damn sure nobody sees me while I'm making it.

Jarod Kintz

#19. 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

#20. You read everything - that's part of the job," he said. "You accumulate all this trivia, and you hope that someday maybe a millionth of it will be useful.

Walter Isaacson

#21. 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

#22. I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

Anita Baker

#23. I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.

Eleanor Farjeon

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

Frank Herbert

#25. .Be ye perfect is not. . .a command to do the impossible. [God] is going to make us into creatures that can obey that command.

John Bevere

#26. With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

Louis Jordan

#27. Things that are real are given and received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence.

Meher Baba

#28. Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

Elie Wiesel

#29. Love makes us do wicked things.

Keith Donohue

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

Frank Herbert

#31. Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

Arthur Miller