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You can't draw neat +lines around planetwide problems. +Planetology is a cut-and-fit science. + + -- PARDOT KYNES, Treatise on the Environmental Recovery + of Post-Holocaust Salusa Secundus +% +Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. + + -- Chief commandment resulting from the Butlerian Jihad, + found in the Orange Catholic Bible +% +Spacing Guild: one leg of the political tripod maintaining the Great +Convention. The Guild was the second mental-physical training school +(see Bene Gesserit) after the Butlerian Jihad. The Guild monopoly on +space travel and transport and upon international banking is taken as +the beginning point of the Imperial Calendar. + + -- Terminology of the Imperium +% +The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences. + + -- PARDOT KYNES, Ecology of Bela Tegeuse, Initial Report to the Imperium +% +One observes the survivors, and learns from them. + + -- Bene Gesserit Teaching +% +The populace must think their ruler is a greater man than they, +else why should they follow him? Above all a leader must be a showman, +giving his people the bread and circuses they require. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES +% +N'kee: Slow-acting poison that builds up in the adrenal glands; one of the +most insidious toxins permitted under the accords of Guild Peace and the +restrictions of the Great Convention. (See War of Assassins.) + + -- The Assassins' Handbook +% +Kwisatz Haderach: "Shortening of the Way." This is the label applied by +the Bene Gesserit to the unknown for which they sought a genetic solution: +a male Bene Gesserit whose organic mental powers would bridge space and time. + + -- Terminology of the Imperium +% +In response to the strict Butlerian taboo against machines that perform mental +functions, a number of schools developed enhanced human beings to subsume most +of the functions formerly performed by computers. Some of the key schools +arising out of the Jihad include the Bene Gesserit, with their intense mental +and physical training, the Spacing Guild, with the prescient ability to find a +safe path through foldspace, and the Mentats, whose computerlike minds are +capable of extraordinary acts of reasoning. + + -- Ikbhan's Treatise on the Mind, Volume I +% +The paintbrush of history has depicted Abulurd Harkonnen in a most unfavorable +light. Judged by the standards of his older half brother, Baron Vladimir, and +his own children Glossu Rabban and Feyd-Rautha Rabban, Abulurd was a different +sort of man entirely. We must, however, assess the frequent descriptions of +his weakness, incompetence, and foolhardy decisions in light of the ultimate +failure of House Harkonnen. Though exiled to Lankiveil and stripped of any +real power, Abulurd secured a victory unmatched by anyone else in his extended +family: He learned how to be happy with his life. + + -- Landsraad Encyclopedia of Great Houses, post-Jihad edition +% +Four things cannot be hidden -- Love, smoke, a pillar of fire, +and a man striding across the open bled. + + -- Fremen Wisdom +% +Who can know whether Ix has gone too far? They hide their facilities, +keep their workers enslaved, and claim the right of secrecy. +Under such circumstances, how can they not be tempted to step +beyond the restrictions of the Butlerian Jihad? + + -- COUNT ILBAN RICHESE, third appeal to the Landsraad +% +There are weapons you cannot hold in your hand. +You can only hold them in your mind. + + -- Bene Gesserit Teaching +% +The basic rule is this: Never support weakness; always support strength. + + -- The Bene Gesserit Azhar Book, Compilation of Great Secrets +% +Many elements of the Imperium believe they hold the ultimate power: the +Spacing Guild with their monopoly on interstellar travel, CHOAM with its +economic stranglehold, the Bene Gesserit with their secrets, the Mentats with +their control of mental processes, House Corrino with their throne, the Great +and Minor Houses of the Landsraad with their extensive holdings. Woe to us on +the day that one of those factions decides to prove the point. + + -- COUNT HASIMIR FENRING, Dispatches from Arrakis +% +The slave concubines permitted my father under the Bene Gesserit-Guild +agreement could not, of course, bear a Royal Successor, but the intrigues were +constant and oppressive in their similarity. We became adept, my mother and +sisters and I, at avoiding subtle instruments of death. + + -- From "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan +% +The working Planetologist has access to many resources, data, and projections. +However, his most important tools are human beings. Only by cultivating +ecological literacy among the people themselves can he save an entire planet. + + -- PARDOT KYNES, The Case for Bela Tegeuse +% +It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire. + + -- THUFIR HAWAT, Mentat and Security Commander to House Atreides +% +We consider the various worlds as gene pools, sources of teachings and +teachers, sources of the possible. + + -- Bene Gesserit Analysis, Wallach IX Archives +% +Many inventions have selectively improved particular skills or abilities, +emphasizing one aspect or another. But no achievement has ever scratched +the complexity or adaptability of the human mind. + + -- Ikbhan's Treatise on the Mind, Volume II +% +We must do a thing on Arrakis never before attempted for an entire planet. +We must use man as a constructive ecological force -- inserting adapted +terraform life: a plant here, an animal there, a man in that place -- +to transform the water cycle, to build a new kind of landscape. + + -- Report from Imperial Planetologist PARDOT KYNES, + directed to Padishah EMPEROR ELROOD IX (unsent) +% +My Father had only one real friend, I think. That was Count Hasimir Fenring, +the genetic-eunuch and one of the deadliest fighters in the Imperium. + + -- From "In My Father's House" by the Princess Irulan +% +Blindness can take many forms other than the inability to see. +Fanatics are often blinded in their thoughts. +Leaders are often blinded in their hearts. + + -- The Orange Catholic Bible +% + +Hope can be the greatest weapon of a downtrodden people, +or the greatest enemy of those who are about to fail. +We must remain aware of its advantages and its limitations. + + -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES, her personal journals + +% +History allows us to see the obvious -- but unfortunately, +not until it is too late. + + -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO +% +Like the knowledge of your own being, the sietch forms a firm base +from which you move out into the world and into the universe. + + -- Fremen Teaching +% +Two hundred thirty-eight planets searched, many of only marginal habitability. +(See star charts attached in separate file.) Resource surveys list valuable +raw materials. Many of these planets deserve a second look, either for +mineral exploitation or possible colonization. As in previous reports, +however, no spice found. + + -- Independent scout survey, third expedition, + delivered to EMPEROR FONDIL CORRINO III +% +The Spacing Guild has worked for centuries to surround our elite Navigators +with mystique. They are revered, from the lowest Pilot to the most talented +Steersman. They live in tanks of spice gas, see all paths through space and +time, guide ships to the far reaches of the Imperium. But no one knows the +human cost of becoming a Navigator. We must keep this a secret, for if they +really knew the truth, they would pity us. + + -- Spacing Guild Training Manual Handbook for Steersmen (Classified) +% +The human body is a machine, a system of organic chemicals, fluid conduits, +electrical impulses; a government is likewise a machine of interacting +societies, laws, cultures, rewards and punishments, patterns of behavior. +Ultimately, the universe itself is a machine, planets around suns, stars +gathered into clusters, clusters and other suns forming entire galaxies . . . . + Our job is to keep the machinery functioning. + + -- Suk Inner School, Primary Doctrine +% +The leaders of the Butlerian Jihad did not adequately define artificial +intelligence, failing to foresee all possibilities of an imaginative society. +Therefore, we have substantial gray areas in which to maneuver. + + -- Confidential Ixian Legal Opinion +% +No outsider has ever seen a Tleilaxu female and lived to tell about it. +Considering the Tleilaxu penchant for genetic manipulation -- see, e.g., +related memos on clones and gholas -- this simple observation raises a +wealth of additional questions. + + -- Bene Gesserit Analysis +% +Like many culinary delicacies, revenge is a dish best savored slowly, +after long and delicate preparation. + + -- EMPEROR ELROOD IX, Deathbed Insights +% +In the Imperium there exists the "principle of the individual," noble but +rarely utilized, whereby a person who violates a written law in a situation +of extreme peril or need can request a special session of the court of +jurisdiction in order to explain and support the necessity of his actions. +A number of legal procedures derive from this principle, among them the Drey +Jury, the Blind Tribunal, and the Trial by Forfeiture. + + -- Law of the Imperium: Commentaries +% +Even the poorest House can be rich in loyalty. Allegiance that must be +purchased by bribes or wages is hollow and flawed, and could break at the worst +possible moment. Allegiance that comes from the heart, though, is stronger +than adamantium and more valuable than purest melange. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES +% +Only God can make living, sentient creatures. + + -- The Orange Catholic Bible +% +Without a goal, a life is nothing. Sometimes the goal becomes a man's entire +life, an all-consuming passion. But once that goal is achieved, what then? +Oh, poor man, what then? + + -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES, her personal journals +% +History has seldom been good to those who must be punished. +Bene Gesserit punishments cannot be forgotten. + + -- Bene Gesserit Dictum +% +How simple things were when our Messiah was only a dream. + + -- STILGAR, Naib of Sietch Tabr +% +The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they seek to hide their +doubts and fears. + + -- Bene Gesserit Axiom +% +Any path that narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap. +Humans do not thread their way through a maze; they scan a vast +horizon filled with unique opportunities. + + -- The Spacing Guild Handbook +% +Perceptions rule the universe. + -- Bene Gesserit Saying +% +You of fearful heart, be strong and fear not. Behold, your God will come with +a vengeance; He will come and save you from the worshipers of machines. + + -- The Orange Catholic Bible +% +Man is but a pebble dropped in a pool. +And if man is but a pebble, then +all his works can be no more. + + -- Zensunni Saying +% +Among the responsibilities of command is the necessity to punish . . . +but only when the victim demands it. + + -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership in a Galactic Imperium, + 12th Edition +% +Speak the truth. That is always much easier, +and is often the most powerful argument. + + -- Bene Gesserit Axiom +% +Imperfections, if viewed in the proper light, can be extremely valuable. +The Great Schools, with their incessant questing for perfection, often +find this postulate difficult to understand, until it is proven to them +that nothing in the universe is random. + + -- From The Philosophies of Old Terra, one of the recovered manuscripts +% +One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. +You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of +love which may be amusing only to those you rule. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES +% +Machine-vaccine principle: Every technological device contains +within it the tools of its opposite, and of its own destruction. + + -- GIAN KANA, Imperial Patent Czar +% +The ultimate question: Why does life exist? +The answer: For life's sake. + + -- ANONYMOUS, thought to be of Zensunni origin +% +The surest way to keep a secret is to make +people believe they already know the answer. + + -- Ancient Fremen Wisdom +% +Hatred is as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for either one is the +capacity for its opposite. + + -- Cautionary Instructions for the Sisterhood, Bene Gesserit Archives, Wallach IX +% +I must rule with eye and claw -- as the hawk among lesser birds. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES, The Atreides Assertion +% +In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or +devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and -- +let us hope -- we remember how to change back. + + -- AMBASSADOR CAMMAR PILRU, Dispatches in Defense of Ix +% +We all live in the shadows of our predecessors for a time. But we who +determine the fate of planets eventually reach the point at which we +become not the shadows, but the light itself. + + -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership +% +History demonstrates that the advancement of technology is not a steady upward +curve. There are flat periods, upward spurts, and even reversals. + + -- Technology of the Imperium, 532nd Edition +% +Memory and History are two sides of the same coin. In time, however, History +tends to slant itself toward a favorable impression of events, while Memory is +doomed to preserve the worst aspects. + + -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES, her personal journals +% +What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us? + + -- The Orange Catholic Bible +% +No one but a Tleilaxu may set foot in Bandalong, holiest city of the Bene +Tleilax, for it is fanatically guarded hallowed ground, purified by their God. + + -- Diplomacy in the Imperium, a Landsraad publication +% +Our timetable will achieve the stature of a natural phenomenon. A planet's +life is a vast, tightly interwoven fabric. Vegetation and animal changes +will be determined at first by the raw physical forces we manipulate. +As they establish themselves, though, our changes will become controlling +influences in their own right -- and we will have to deal with them, too. +Keep in mind, though, that we need control only three percent of the energy +surface -- only three percent -- to tip the entire structure over into our +self-sustaining system. + + -- PARDOT KYNES, Arrakis Dreams +% +Even innocents carry within them their own guilt in their own way. +No one makes it through life without paying, in one fashion or another. + + -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES, her personal journals +% +Innovations seem to have a life and a sentience of their own. When conditions +are right, a radical new idea -- a paradigm shift -- may appear simultaneously +from many minds at once. Or it may remain secret in the thoughts of one man +for years, decades, centuries . . . until someone else thinks of the same +thing. How many brilliant discoveries die stillborn, or lie dormant, +never to be embraced by the Imperium as a whole? + + -- OMBUDSMEN OF RICHESE, Rebuttal to the Landsraad, The True Domain + of the Intellect -- Private Property, or Resources for the Galaxy? +% +They demonstrate subtle, highly effective skills in the aligned arts of +observation and data collection. Information is their stock-in-trade. + + -- Imperial Report on the Bene Gesserit, used for tutoring purposes +% +When the center of the storm does not move, you are in its path. + + -- Ancient Fremen Wisdom +% +Storms beget storms. Rage begets rage. +Revenge begets revenge. Wars beget wars. + + -- Bene Gesserit Conundrum +% +Tio Holtzman was one of the most productive Ixian inventors on record. +He often went on creative binges, locking himself up for months on end +so that he could work without interruption. Sometimes upon emerging he +required hospitalization, and there were constant concerns over his +sanity and well-being. Holtzman died young -- barely past thirty Standard +Years -- but the results of his efforts changed the galaxy forever. + + -- Biographical Capsules, an Imperial filmbook +% +In the long history of our House, we have been constantly shadowed by +Misfortune, as if we were its prey. One might almost believe the curse +of Atreus from ancient Greek times on Old Terra. + + -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES, from a speech to his generals +% +Truth is a chameleon. + + -- Zensunni Aphorism +% +In a Trial by Forfeiture, the normal rules of evidence do not apply. There are +no disclosure requirements that evidence be revealed to the opposition or to +the magistrates prior to the court proceedings. This places the person with +secret knowledge in a uniquely powerful position -- commensurate with the +extreme risk he takes. + + -- Rogan's Rules of Evidence, 3rd Edition +% +The written Law of the Imperium cannot be changed, no matter which Great House +holds dominion or which Emperor sits on the Golden Lion Throne. The documents +of the Imperial Constitution have been established for thousands of years. +This is not to say that each regime is legally identical; the variations stem +from subtleties of interpretation and from microscopic loopholes that become +large enough to drive a Heighliner through. + + -- Law of the Imperium: Commentaries and Rebuttals +% +The worst sort of alliances are those which weaken us. Worse still is +when an Emperor fails to recognize such an alliance for what it is. + + -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership +% +The worst sort of protection is confidence. The best defense is suspicion. + + -- HASIMIR FENRING +% +As seen from orbit, the world of Ix is pristine and placid. But beneath +its surface, immense projects are undertaken and great works are achieved. +In this way, our planet is a metaphor for the Imperium itself. + + -- DOMINIC VERNIUS, The Secret Workings of Ix +% +When faced with necessary actions, there are always choices. So long as the +job gets done. + + -- COUNT HASIMIR FENRING, Dispatches from Arrakis +% +In plotting any course of revenge, one must savor the anticipation phase +and all its moments, for the actual execution often differs widely from the +original plan. + + -- HASIMIR FENRING, Dispatches from Arrakis +% +What matters more, the form of justice or the actual outcome? No matter how a +court may dissect the evidence, the foundation of genuine truth remains +unblemished. Unfortunately for many of the accused, such genuine truth is +often known only to the victim and the perpetrator. All others must make up +their own minds. + + -- Landsraad Law, codicils and analyses +% +We do what we must. Friendship and loyalty be damned. We do what we must! + + -- LADY HELENA ATREIDES, +her personal journals +% +All persons are contained within a single individual, just as all time is in a +moment, and the entire universe is in a grain of sand. + + -- Fremen Saying +% +In the final analysis, the legendary event called Leto's Gambit became the +basis of the young Duke Atreides's immense popularity. He successfully +projected himself as a shining beacon of honor in a galactic sea of darkness. +To many members of the Landsraad, Leto's honesty and naivete became a symbol of +honor that shamed many of the Great and Minor Houses to alter their behavior +toward each other . . . for a short time, at least, until familiar old patterns +reemerged. + + -- Origins of House Atreides: Seeds of the Future in the Galactic Imperium, + by Bronso of Ix +% +The universe contains untapped and heretofore unimagined energy sources. +They are before your very eyes, yet you cannot see them. +They are in your mind, yet you cannot think them. But I can! + + -- TIO HOLTZMAN, Collected Lectures +% +Only fools leave witnesses. + + -- HASIMIR FENRING +% +Progress and profit require a substantial investment in personnel, equipment, +and capital funding. However, the resource most often overlooked, yet which +can often provide the greatest payoff, is an investment in time. + + -- DOMINIC VERNIUS, The Secret Workings of Ix +% +A world is supported by four things: the teaming of the wise, the justice +of the great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of the brave. +But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. + + -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Galactic Leadership +% +A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. +Creativity keeps the creator alive. + + -- FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes +% |