Quotes about Power

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.

Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.

Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?

They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.

While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning 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…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that

You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach." Jessica

She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul

We should grant power over our affairs only to those reluctant to hold it, and only under conditions that increase that reluctance.