tags: 📥️/🔖️/🟥️ publish: true aliases: - Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection cover: '' general_subject: specific_subject: source: kindle isbn: doi: url: author: "[[@Frank Herbert]]" guest: publish_date: reviewed_date: ---  ## Highlights - “Take your hand from the box, young human, and look at it.” [(Location 272)](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B088QLJGZC&location=272) - notes:: Fighting against raw animal instincts to flee from pain and instead to control these base impulses - “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.” [(Location 7018)](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B088QLJGZC&location=7018) - Hydraulic despotism: central control of an essential energy such as water, electricity, fuel, medicines, melange . . . Obey the central controlling power or the energy is shut off and you die! [(Location 31646)](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B088QLJGZC&location=31646) - “I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.” [(Location 32141)](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B088QLJGZC&location=32141) - tags:: [[favorite]] - All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. —MISSIONARIA PROTECTIVA, TEXT QIV (DECTO) [(Location 39164)](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B088QLJGZC&location=39164) - tags:: [[favorite]] - “Our gods should mature as we mature.” [(Location 41625)](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B088QLJGZC&location=41625) - She went to the large worktable while she still had daylight to study the topomap spread out there: little flags sticking in it, green thread on pushpins just as she had designed it. Odrade had asked once: “Is this really preferable to a projection?” “I need to touch it.” Odrade accepted that. Projections palled. Too far removed from dirt. You could not draw a finger down a projection and say, “We will go down here.” A finger in a projection was a finger in empty air. Eyes are never enough. The body must feel its world. [(Location 45461)](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B088QLJGZC&location=45461)