How many children did Paul and Chani have?
Chani Kynes, also known as Chanisihayah, (10,178-10,209) was the Fremen bound concubine of Paul Atreides, and the mother of his three children: Leto Atreides II the Elder, and the twins Leto II and Ghanima Atreides.
What is a concubine in dune?
A concubine is any consort to a ruling member of a Great House. … Duke Leto Atreides took the Lady Jessica as his concubine. Even though he loved her, he believed that he could one day elevate himself and his House through a political marriage.
What is pre born in dune?
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The term “Pre-born” was used to refer to someone who was fully aware as a personality long before actual birth, able to peruse their ancestral memories in the same way as a Reverend Mother.
Famous Quotes From ‘Dune’
These ‘Dune’ quotations are some of the most famous ones out there. These quotes are taken from both the book and the movie.
1. “Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
2. “A beginning is a very delicate time.”
– Princess Irulan, ‘Dune’.
3. “A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
4. “It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.”
– Piter De Vries, ‘Dune’.
5. “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
6. “The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel.”
– Princess Irulan, ‘Dune’.
The Best Quotes From ‘Dune’
The best ‘Dune’ sayings are taken from both the novel which is written by Frank Herbert and the ‘Dune’ movie as well. Keep reading to find out more!
7. “The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
8. “Just as individuals are born, mature, breed, and die, so do societies and civilizations and governments.”
– Muad’Dib, ‘Dune’.
9. “The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in… And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic… The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
10. “Paul… whatever happens, I will love you forever. You are my life. You are my life.”
– Chani, ‘Dune’.
11. “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong – faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
12. “Irulan shall be my wife, opening the way for an Atreides to take the throne.”
– Paul Atreides, ‘Dune’.
‘Dune’ is one of the most well-written science fiction novels of all time. Here are some of the famous book quotes from ‘Dune’. Book lovers listen up!
13. “You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove the threat to his kind.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
14. “A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
15. “He who controls the spice controls the universe.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
16. “The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
17. “But all of a man’s water, ultimately, belongs to his people—to his tribe. It’s a necessity when you live near the Great Flat. All water’s precious there, and the human body is composed of some seventy percent water by weight. A dead man, surely, no longer requires that water.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
18. “It’s shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
19. “The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind. This is the willow’s purpose.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
20. “And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
– Frank Herbert, ‘Dune’.
Quotes From ‘Dune’ The Movie
Read on to know what the characters from the movie ‘Dune’ had to say in these movie quotes from ‘Dune’. Movie fans will love these!
21. “We Fremen have a saying: ‘God created Arrakis to train the faithful.’ One cannot go against the word of God.”
– Paul, ‘Dune’.
22. “The sleeper must awaken.”
– Duke Leto Atreides, ‘Dune’.
23. “I’ll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens.”
– Duke Leto Atreides, ‘Dune’.
24. “Usually, we have wormsigns the likes of which even God have never seen.”
– Stilgar, ‘Dune’.
25. “Let us say, I suggest you may be human. Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts. Your instinct will be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so, you die.”
– Reverend Mother Mohiam, ‘Dune’.
26. “Remember: Walk without rhythm and we won’t attract the worm. It will go to the thumper.”
– Paul Atreides, ‘Dune’.
27. “Oh Jessica, my beloved concubine. I should have married you.”
– Duke Leto Atreides, ‘Dune’.
THE BEST DUNE QUOTES
“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene Gesserit knows.” —from the Manual of Muad’Dib by the Princess Irulan, p. 3
Arrakis—Dune—Desert Planet, p. 4
“Teaching is one thing. The basic ingredient is another.” pp. 6–7
“I hold at your neck the gom jabbar,” she said. “The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It’s a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don’t pull away or you’ll feel that poison.” p. 8
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” p. 8
“What’s in the box?”
“Pain.” p. 9
“You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove the threat to his kind.” p. 9
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind,” quoted Paul. pp. 11–12
“Given the right lever, you can move a planet.” p. 19
Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: “The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will fine that the place-between, once occupied by the tension, as become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.” —from “Muad’Dib, Family Commentaries, by the Princess Irulan, pp. 21–22
In a low voice, she said: “I’ve been so lonely.”
“It should be one of the tests,” the old woman said. “Humans are almost always lonely.” p. 24
“That which submits rules.” p. 26
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” p.32
“What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood’s a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It’s not for fighting.” p. 35
“Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.” p. 38
“When one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.” p. 55
“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.” pp. 65–66
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.” p. 69
“The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.” p. 72
“O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.” p. 82
“The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk.” p. 82
“We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis—win or die.” p. 87
“We thank you, Stilgar, for the gift of your body’s moisture. We accept it in the spirit with which it is given.” And Idaho spat on the table in front of the Duke. p. 93
“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.” p. 102
“Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura.” p. 104
On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power,” the Duke said. “Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.” p. 104
“That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things.” p. 105
“You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.” p. 108
“With a Fremen suit in good working order you won’t lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day.” p. 110
“Arrakis could be an Eden if its rulers would look up from grubbing for spice!” p.113
“You see, my climate demands a special attitude towards water. You are aware of water at all times. You waste nothing that contains moisture.” p. 113
“Bless the Maker and all His Water. Bless the coming and going of Him, May His passing cleanse the world. May He keep the world for his people.” p. 124
“When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.” p. 126
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never persistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. p. 126
“Do not make the error of considering my son a child,” the Duke said. p. 137
“The human body is composed of some seventy per cent water by weight. A dead man, surely, no longer requires that water.” p. 137
“Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.” p. 138
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.” p.146
“Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.” p. 154
“If desired a puppet, the Duke would marry me,” she said. “He might even think he did it of his own free will.” p. 156
“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles.” p. 162
“Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: ‘Now, it’s complete because it’s ended here.‘” p. 172
One thought remained to him. Leto saw it in formless light on rays of black: The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes. The thought struck him with a sense of fullness he knew he could never explain. p. 183
My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. “Something cannot emerge from nothing,” he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable “the truth” can be. p. 207
“A man’s flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.” p. 215
“If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.” p. 227
“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.” p. 230
“This is a Mentat you speak of,” growled the Baron. “One doesn’t waste a Mentat.” p. 232
“Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some due process of law. Always do it for an overriding purpose—and know your purpose!” p. 236
“Drink all your water,” Paul said. “Axiom: The best place to conserve your water is in your body. It keeps your energy up. You’re stronger. Trust your stillsuit.” p. 246
“There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind—we could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.” p. 255
“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fools wrath is heavier than them both.” p. 256
“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power,” Tuek said. “You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.” p. 257
“Most intruders here regret finding the Fremen!” p. 269
The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape—how we take part in that basic source of civilization—agriculture. p. 271
“The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences.” p. 272
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.” p. 276
“…it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.” p.277
“My duty is the strength of the tribe.” p. 280
“To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise.” p. 286
“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called ‘spannungsbogen’—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.” p. 288
“When your opponent fears you, then’s the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.” p. 304
“How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?” Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. “We call that one muad’dib,” Stilgar said. p. 307
God created Arrakis to train the faithful. p. 309
On Arrakis, water was money. p. 311
“He gives moisture to the dead.” p. 314
“Tell me about the waters of your birthworld, Paul Muad’Dib.” p. 320
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. p. 321
“A killer with the manners of a rabbit—this is the most dangerous kind.” p. 323
“Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.” p. 339
“Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.” p. 339
And Paul recalled the stories of the Fremen—that their children fought as ferociously as the adults. p. 348
“To accept a little death is worse than death itself.” p. 354
“I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness – until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say “Look! I have no hands!” But the people all around me say: “What are hands?” p. 359
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” p. 373
“But it’s well known that repression makes a religion flourish.” p. 379
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.” p. 382
“Nothing about religion is simple.” p. 383
“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.” p. 387
“Everyone knows a Fremen baby must get his crying done at birth, if he’s in sietch because he can never cry again lest he betray us on hajr.” p. 394
You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic. p. 401
“What you’ll summon for your test is a wild maker, an old man of the desert. You must have proper respect for such a one.” p. 402
“Remember that we work together. That way we’re certain.” p. 403
“Ways change.” p. 423
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. p. 424
“Prophets have a way of dying by violence.” p. 425
“Hard tasks need hard ways.” p. 427
“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It’s a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone.” p. 433
“The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes. The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives. It’s as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.” p. 445
“He who can destroy a thing has real control of it.” p. 446
“The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.” p. 451
“How little the universe knows about the nature of real cruelty!” p. 456
I have seen a friend become a worshipper, he thought. p. 469
There should be a word for memories that deny themselves. p. 470
“Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” p. 470
“The universe is full of doors.” p. 474
“The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.” p. 476
“But this being has a human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.” p. 481
Treachery within treachery within treachery. p. 486
“Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she’ll live as less than a concubine – never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she’s bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.” p. 489
Send a third stage Guild Navigator to Kaitan to demand details from the Emperor. The spice must flow…
The Bene Gesserit witch must leave.
A beginning is a very delicate time. Know then that it is the year 10,191. The Known Universe is ruled by the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, my father. In this time, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The Spacing Guild and its navigators, who the spice has mutated over 4,000 years, use the orange spice gas, which gives them the ability to fold space. That is, travel to any part of universe without moving. Oh, yes. I forgot to tell you the spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe. A desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom. The planet is Arrakis, also known as Dune.
Princess Irulan
House Atreides took control of Arrakis 63 standard days into the year 10,191. It was known that the Harkonnens, the former rulers of Arrakis, would leave many suicide troops behind. Atreides patrols were doubled.
Princess Irulan
Muad’dib had become the hand of God, fulfilling the Fremen prophecy. Where there was war, Muad’dib would now bring peace. Where there was hatred, Muad’dib would bring love. To lead the people to true freedom, and to change the face of Arrakis.
Princess Irulan
I’ll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Duke Leto Atreides
The Atreides house is building a secret army, using a technique unknown to us; a technique involving sound. The Duke is becoming more popular in the Landsraad; he could threaten me. I have ordered House Atreides to occupy Arrakis, to mine the spice, thus replacing their enemies, the Harkonnens. House Atreides will not refuse because of the tremendous power they think they will gain. Then, at an appointed time, Baron Harkonnen will return to Arrakis and launch a sneak attack on House Atreides. I have promised the Baron five legions of my Sardukar terror troops.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
Paul Atreides
Remember: Walk without rhythm and we won’t attract the worm. It will go to the thumper.
Paul Atreides
This is part of the weirding way that we will teach you. Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.
Paul Atreides
My name is a killing word. They are ready to fight. Yet in order to lead them, I must conquer the worm … conquer Shai-Hulud.
Paul Atreides
I’m dead to everyone unless I try to become what I may be.
Paul Atreides
“My father, the Padishah Emperor, took me by the hand one day and I sensed in the ways my mother had taught me that he was disturbed. He led me down the Hall of Portraits to the ego-likeness of the Duke Leto Atreides. I marked the strong resemblance between them — my father and this man in the portrait–both with thin, elegant faces and sharp features dominated by cold eyes. ‘Princess-daughter, my father said, I would that you’d been older when it came time for this man to choose a woman.’ My father was 71 years old at the time and looking no older than the man in the portrait, and I was only 14 years old, but yet I remember deducing in that instant that my father secretly wished the Duke had been his son, and disliked the political necessities that made them enemies.” — In My Father’s House by the Princess Irulan
“I will not fear.Fear is the mind-killer.I will face my fear.I will let it pass through me.When the fear has gone,there shall be nothing.Only I will remain.”
A concubine is any consort to a ruling member of a Great House.
Concubines were often taken by ruling members of Great Houses for companionship. This was considered an ideal practice when one wished for other Great Houses to think they were available for alliance through marriage.
Duke Leto Atreides took the Lady Jessica as his concubine. Even though he loved her, he believed that he could one day elevate himself and his House through a political marriage.
Leto’s son, Paul Atreides, also took his love Chani as his concubine, so that he could marry Princess Irulan Corrino, legitimise his rule, and ascend to the Golden Lion Throne.
Over the next few decades, Leto Atreides II inherited the throne with his sister-wife, Ghanima at his side after the death of their parents. Irulan’s nephew, Prince Farad’n Corrino became Ghanima’s concubine.
The Bene Gesserit are a pseudo-religious organization of all-women spies, nuns, scientists, and theologians who use genetic experimentation, galactic political interference, and religious engineering to further their own agenda of ascending the human race with the advent of their chosen one, the Kwisatz Haderach.
Dune (2021): 10 Best Quotes
10“Dreams Make Good Stories, But Everything Important Happens When We’re Awake.” – Duncan Idaho
9“You Fight When The Necessity Arises, No Matter The Mood.” – Gurney Halleck
8“A Great Man Doesn’t Seek To Lead. He’s Called To It.” – Duke Leto Atreides
7“An Animal Caught In A Trap Will Gnaw Off Its Own Leg To Escape. What Will You Do?” – Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam
6“When Is A Gift Not A Gift?” – Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
5“I Am Commanded To Say Nothing, To See Nothing.” – Liet Kynes
4“Arrakis Is Arrakis, And The Desert Takes The Weak. My Desert. My Arrakis. My Dune.” – Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
3“The Mystery Of Life Isn’t A Problem To Solve, But A Reality To Experience.” – Jamis
2“My Road Leads Into The Desert.” – Paul Atreides
1“I Must Not Fear. Fear Is The Mind-Killer. Fear Is The Little Death That Brings Obliteration.” – Lady Jessica Of The Atreides
Chani Quotes
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Paul Atreides Quotes
Paul Atreides is the protagonist, an heir to an aristocratic dynasty, who find himself exiled into an inhospitable planet. His efforts to avenge his family leads the storyline.
- “He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.” -Paul Atreides
- “All paths lead into darkness.” -Paul Atreides
- “Law is the ultimate science. Thus it reads above the Emperor’s door. I propose to show him law.” -Paul Atreides
- “My name is a killing word.” -Paul Atreides
- “Remember: Walk without rhythm and we won’t attract the worm. It will go to the thumper.” -Paul Atreides
- “I’m dead to everyone unless I try to become what I may be.” -Paul Atreides
- “The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.” -Paul Atreides
- “Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs.” -Paul Atreides
- “Each man is a little war.” -Paul Atreides
Lady Jessica Quotes
Lady Jessica is the mother to Paul and a strong lead in the Dune universe.
- “Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.” -Lady Jessica
- “Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude towards humanity. It degrades everything it touches.” -Lady Jessica
- “The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of such peril.”-Lady Jessica
- “When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.” -Lady Jessica
- “How seductive it is to live in peace.” -Lady Jessica
- “There’s no need to fight over me.” -Lady Jessica
Duke Leto Atreides Quotes
Duke is the father to Paul and head of House Atreides.
- “A person needs new experiences. It jars something deep inside, allowing them to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” -Duke Leto Atreides
- “Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.” -Duke Leto Atreides
- “Without change something sleeps inside of us, and seldom awakens. The Sleeper must awaken.” -Duke Leto Atreides
- “Respect for the truth is the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.” -Duke Leto Atreides
- “It is human to have your soul brought to a crisis you did not anticipate.” – -Duke Leto Atreides
- “Sir, I honor and respect the personal dignity of any man who respects my dignity. I am indeed indebted to you. And I always pay my debts. If it is your custom that this knife remain sheathed here, then it is so ordered—by me. And if there is any other way we may honor the man who died in our service, you have but to name it.” -Duke Leto Atreides
Other Dune Quotes
Still not enough Fremen quotes? We’ve got you covered with even more.
- “I want to spit, once, on your head”.” -Baron Vladimir Harkonnen
- “When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.” -Bene Gesserit Axiom
- “Show me a completely smooth operation and I will show you someone who is covering mistakes… real boats rock.” -Darwi Odrade
- “”We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.” -Bene Gesserit
- “The slow blade penetrates the shield.” -Gurney Halleck
- “Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.” -The Preacher
- “I must not let my passion interfere with my reason. That is not good. That is bad.” -Piter De Vries
- “The Spice must flow.” – Baron Harkonnen
- Fear is the mind killer” -Bene Gesserit
Frank Herbert Quotes From the Book
Frank Herbert, the author of the book series crafted some of the spiciest lines in all of the universe. Check out these Dune quotes below and see for yourself.
- “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.” -Princess Irulan
- “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.” -Paul Muad’Dib
- “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.” -Bene Gesserit
- “Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.” -Darwi Odrade
- “Men always fear things which move by themselves.” -Hayt, the Ghola
- “There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles.” -Paul Muad’Dib
- “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” -Princess Irulan
- “Truth suffers from too much analysis” – Ancient Fremen Saying
- “Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality … and fall.” -Edric, the Guild Steersman
Dune (1984)
Duke Leto Atreides: I’ll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Paul: The Worm is the Spice! The Spice is the Worm.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Do you know of the Water of Life? The bile from the ill-borne worms of Arrakis?
Paul: I have heard of it.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: It’s very dangerous. The Bene Gesserit sisterhood would use it to see – within. There is a place – terrifying to us. To women. It is said: a man will come, the Kwisatz Haderach. He will go where we can not. Many men have tried.
Paul: They tried and failed?
Reverend Mother Mohiam: They tried and died.
Paul: Stilgar, do we have wormsign?
Stilgar: Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen.
Paul: Long live the fighters.
Duke Leto Atreides: I’ll miss the sea. But a man needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside of us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Gurney Halleck: Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.
Paul: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will let it pass over me and through me. And when it has passed I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where it has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Reverend Mother Mohiam: I hold at your neck a Gom Jabbar. This one kills only animals.
Paul: Are you suggesting the Duke’s son is an animal?
Reverend Mother Mohiam: Let us say, I suggest you may be human. Your awareness may be powerful enough to control your instincts. Your instinct will be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so, you die.
Gurney Halleck: Shield Practice.
Paul: Shield Practice? Gurney, we had practice this morning. I’m not in the mood.
Gurney Halleck: Not in the mood? Mood’s a thing for cattle and loveplay, not fighting.
Paul: I’m sorry Gurney.
Gurney Halleck: Not sorry enough.
Guild Navigator: We ourselves perceive a slight problem within House Atreides. Paul, Paul Atreides.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: You mean of course Duke Leto Atreides, his father?
Guild Navigator: I mean Paul Atreides. We want him killed. I did not say this. I am not here.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: I understand.
Stilgar: You have strength. You shall be known as Usual – which is the strength of the base of the pillar. This is your secret name in our troop. But, you must choose the name of manhood, which we will call you openly.
Paul: What do you call the mouse shadow in the second moon?
Stilgar: We call that one Muad’Dib.
Paul: Could I be known as Paul Muad’Dib?
Stilgar: You are Paul Muad’Dib.
Paul: This is part of the weirding way that we will teach you. Some thoughts have a certain sound, that being the equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen air.
Chani: Tell me of your homeworld, Usul.
Paul: Father… father, the sleeper has awakened.
Piter De Vries: As you instructed me, I have enlightened your nephews concerning my plan.
Baron Harkonnen: My plan.
Piter De Vries: …the plan… to crush the Atreides.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Bring in that floating fat man, the Baron.
Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Bring in the floating fat man.
Paul: May the Hand of God be with us all, Duncan.
Baron Harkonnen: The drug was timed. Dr. Yueh has been very useful to us.
“Not the blood, sir. But all of a man’s water, ultimately, belongs to his people—to his tribe. It’s a necessity when you live near the Great Flat. All water’s precious there, and the human body is composed of some seventy percent water by weight. A dead man, surely, no longer requires that water”
House Atreides was one of the Houses Major within the infrastructure of the Galactic Padishah Empire. They were ruled by the patriarch of the Atreides family, who took the title of Duke.
Leto Atreides II’s lack of a direct heir, coupled with his decision to dissolve the Atreides Empire after his 3,500 year-long life came to an end, saw House Atreides cease to exist as a tangible political power. However, the Atreides bloodline continued through Leto II’s twin sister (and legal wife) Ghanima Atreides and her concubine Farad’n Corrino.
One such group of descendants of Ghanima were Leto II’s, majordomo, Moneo Atreides, and his daughter Siona Atreides. After the bonding of Siona and a ghola of Duncan Idaho, the Atriedes families continued onward. Because of the Prescience invisibility conferred to the genetic line through Siona, the line flourished for over 1500 years till the time of the Return of the Honored Matres.
According to Leto II’s plan, it was impossible to definitively know all of Siona’s descendants, as they were immune to prescient vision. Many escaped into obscurity, and more escaped into the Scattering. The Bene Gesserit also maintained multiple Atreides bloodlines within their breeding program, resulting in dozens if not hundreds of descendants (of varying concentration).
By the time of the return from the Scattering, some five thousand years after the time of Paul-Maud’ib, Supreme Bashar Miles Teg was a descendant of the Atreides, as was his daughter, the Reverend Mother Darwi Odrade, [O dray’ dee], who even bore a time-worn version of the last name. Teg and his daughter were closely watched by the Bene Gesserit, for any sign of the “wildness” of the Atreides line. This wildness included any sign of them arising to be another super-being, a Kwisatz Haderach. Reverend Mother Lucilla, a key ally of Darwi, was also a descendant of Siona Atreides through a different branch maintained by the Bene Gesserit. Unexpectedly, the worm-rider Sheeana was also revealed to be a descendant of Siona: despite being born into obscure poverty on Rakis, her ability to command the worms (foretold by the God Emperor) led to her to becoming a rising, messianic figure within the sisterhood as well.
Teg was killed at the destruction of Rakis when the Honored Matres attacked and reduced Dune to a charred ball, and Odrade was killed some time later at Junction when the Bene Gesserit attempted to liberate Junction from the Matres. Lucilla was killed in the fall of Lampadas. Sheanna, however, escaped with a ghola-clone of Miles Teg on a no-ship with the new Duncan Idaho ghola, leaving for parts unknown.
Known Rulers of House Atreides
- “The Old Duke”, nineteenth Duke (Father of Leto I)
- Leto Atreides I, twentieth Duke
- Paul Atreides, twenty-first Duke and Emperor
- Leto Atreides II, twenty-second (and last) Duke and God-Emperor
Family
- Atreus – Ancient founder
- Agamemnon – Ancient member; son of Atreus
- Old Duke – Father of Leto I
- Leto Atreides I – Father of Paul and Alia
- Jessica Atreides – Mother of Paul and Alia
- Paul Atreides – Father of Leto II and Ghanima
- Alia Atreides
- Leto Atreides II the Elder
- Leto Atreides II
- Ghanima Atreides
- Moneo Atreides – Descendant of Ghanima
- Siona Atreides – Daughter of Moneo
Retainers
- Arkie
- Duncan Idaho – Swordmaster to Leto I
- Fedor
- Gurney Halleck
- Mattai
- Thufir Hawat – Mentat to Leto I
- Wellington Yueh – Suk doctor to Leto I
The Old Duke Atreides (d. 10154 AG head of House Atreides, was the nineteenth Atreides Duke of Caladan, father to Leto Atreides I, grandfather to Paul Atreides (Duke of Arrakis and Emperor of the Known Universe), and great-grandfather to Leto Atreides II (the God-Emperor).
The Old Duke ruled Caladan as a siridar fief bequeathed by the Corrino Padishah Emperor, most likely Elrood IX. He was a bullfighter until losing his life to a bull.
Duke Leto Atreides I (10140 AG – 10191 AG), sometimes called Leto the Just or the Red Duke, was the twentieth duke of House Atreides fathered Emperor Paul Atreides and Regent Alia Atreides with Bene Gesserit concubine, Lady Jessica. Well known for his even-handed and compassionate leadership style, Leto ruled over Caladan, and later Arrakis, all while at war with the powerful Baron Harkonnen.
Lady Jessica of the Atreides (10154 AG-10256 AG) was the official concubine of Duke Leto Atreides I, and the mother of his son, Emperor Paul Atreides, and daughter, Alia Atreides. She was also a Reverend Mother of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood.
Paul Atreides, aka Muad’Dib, Usul, and The Preacher (10175 AG- 10219 AG), is a central character to the Dune series. He was born on the planet Caladan as the son of Duke Leto Atreides I and his Bene Gesserit concubine Lady Jessica. He was also the older brother of Alia Atreides.
He married Bene Gesserit trained Irulan Corrino, but did not produce an heir by her. With his Fremen concubine Chani Kynes, he fathered the twins Ghanima and Leto Atreides II, the God-Emperor.
Last Duke of House Atreides, leader of the Fremen, and first ruler of the Atreides Empire, Paul was considered the Kwisatz Haderach: a powerful prescient being, long sought by the Bene Gesserit and the end product of their lengthy breeding program.
Chani Kynes, also known by her intimate name Sihaya, (10177 AG – 10205 AG) was the Fremen bound concubine of Emperor Paul Atreides. With the Emperor, she mothered Leto Atreides II the Elder, God-Emperor Leto Atreides II the Younger, and Ghanima Atreides.
Leto Atreides II, (10205 AG – 13724 AG) also known as the God-Emperor, was the second son of Paul Atreides and his Fremen concubine Chani Kynes, daughter of Liet Kynes. He was born just after his twin sister Ghanima. After the death of his aunt, the regent Alia Atreides, Leto II proclaimed himself Emperor of the Atreides Empire, and ruled for approximately 3,500 standard years, guiding humankind with his iron fist towards survival. He was named after the Duke Leto Atreides, his paternal grandfather, and Leto Atreides II the Elder, his older brother, who was murdered in infancy.
Ghanima Atreides (10205 AG – 10516 AG), born on the planet Arrakis, daughter of Paul Atreides and his Fremen concubine Chani Kynes. She was born a little time before her twin brother Leto Atreides II, the God-Emperor.
Farad’n Corrino, heir to House Corrino was her consort.
Duncan Idaho (10148 AG – 10191 AG) was a swordmaster in the service of House Atreides, and one of Duke Leto’s right-hand men, with Gurney Halleck and Thufir Hawat. Duncan Idaho was said to be very handsome. He had black, curly hair, a dark complexion, and green or blue eyes. During the days of the original Duncan Idaho, and during the time of the God Emperor, he was regarded as something of a ladies’ man.
Jinx 