If We Deny Emotion, We Lose All

What You Of The Choam Directorate Seem Unable To Understand Is That You Seldom Find Real Loyalties In Commerce. ... Men Must Want To Do Things Of Their Own Innermost Drives. People, Not Commercial Organizations Or Chains Of Command, Are What Make Great Civilizations Work. Every Civilization Depends Upon The Quality Of The Individuals It Produces. If You Over-organize Humans, Over-legalize Them, Suppress Their Urge To Greatness - They Cannot Work And Their Civilization Collapses.

Ready Comprehension Is Often A Knee-jerk Response And The Most Dangerous Form Of Understanding. It Blinks An Opaque Screen Over Your Ability To Learn. The Judgmental Precedents Of Law Function That Way, Littering Your Path With Dead Ends. Be Warned. Understand Nothing. All Comprehension Is Temporary.

Give As Few Orders As Possible," His Father Had Told Him Once Long Ago. "once You've Given Orders On A Subject, You Must Always Give Orders On That Subject.

The Scarce Water Of Dune Is An Exact Analog Of Oil Scarcity. Choam Is Opec.

Governments Always Commit Their Entire Populations When The Demands Grow Heavy Enough. By Their Passive Acceptance, These Populations Become Accessories To Whatever Is Done In Their Name.