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There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.
I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.
When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.