106 Quotes by Brian Herbert

Seurat’s flowmetal face gleamed in the lights from his update ship’s cockpit. “Then I regret having been such an excellent teacher.

Arrakis is ours because we have taken it,” Selim announced. “We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.

Vor stared for a moment at his own reflection in the familiar mirrored face, remembering some of the stupid jokes his friend had told and the innovative military games they had played together. Seurat had never harmed him in any way.

You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!

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.

Jool Noret, we admire you. You are the scourge of Omnius.” “I am merely doing my job.

Serena grew angry. How could that representative worry about petty price tags, when the ultimate cost was so much higher? “We will all pay – in blood – if we do not do this. We must strengthen the League and the human species.

If you are born to power, you must prove you deserve it through good works – or give it up. To do any less is to act without conscience.

Truth belongs to those who control that perspective.