Dune (1984) - Quotes

Paul Atreides: * To the Fremen Warriors in his first speech offering to train the Fremen before their battle.

Paul Atreides: [[universe] I am Usul. Paul Muad'Dib. Our shared enemy, the Harkonnens, are once again in control of Arrakis. Stilgar, your leader, has asked me and my mother to teach you the weirding way to crush the Harkonnens. We must do more than this, we must totally destroy all spice production on Arrakis. The Guild and the entire ] depends on spice. He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing. I will take 100 of your warriors and train them, this 100 will train the thousands that remain. When the spice flow stops, all eyes will turn to Arrakis. The Baron and the Emperor himself will be forced to deal with us. Arrakis will become the center of the universe.

Paul Atreides: [[dead] I'm ] to everyone unless I try to become what I may be.

Paul Atreides: * After one of the Fedaykin begins to ask a question of Muad'Dib while holding a weirding module.

Paul Atreides: [[name; [word] My ] is a killing ]. They are ready to fight. Yet in order to lead them, I must conquer the worm ... conquer Shai-Hulud.

Paul Atreides: [[w:Weirding Module|weirding modules] * Instructing Fremen on the use of ].

Paul Atreides: [[Wyrd|weirding; [thoughts; [sound; [fires; [enemy; [air] This is part of the ] way that we will teach you. Some ] have a certain ], that being equivalent to a form. Through sound and motion, you will be able to paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set ], suffocate an ] or burst his organs. We will kill until no Harkonnen breathes Arrakeen ].

Paul Atreides: * To his mother, as they try to reach safety of rock outcrops in the desert.

Paul Atreides: [[worm] Remember: Walk without rhythm and we won't attract the ]. It will go to the thumper.

Paul Atreides: * Reciting the Bene Gesserit Litany against Fear

Paul Atreides: [[fear; [mind; [death] I must not ]. Fear is the ]-killer. Fear is the little ] that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: * Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV, after the Fremen succeed in their assaults on the spice trade.

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: Bring in that floating fat man, the Baron!

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: * Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: This is genocide! The deliberate and systematic destruction of all life on Arrakis!

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: * In conversation with a Third Stage Spacing Guild Navigator, regarding the Atreides/Harkonnen feud and control of Arrakis and how the Atreides will be felled

Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV: 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.

Duke Leto Atreides: [voiceover] Jessica, what is wrong? Forgive me, my beloved concubine. I should have married you. Why hold a dream to ascend to a throne through a political marriage? I should have married you.

Duke Leto Atreides: [[w:Caladan|Caladan] * As House Atreides prepares to leave ] for Arrakis

Duke Leto Atreides: [[sea; [experiences; [change; [sleeps] I'll miss the ], but a person needs new ]. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without ] something ] inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Duke Leto Atreides: Thank you for joining me, Paul. Thufir Hawat has served House Atreides for three generations. He swears you are the finest student he has ever taught. Yueh, Gurney and Duncan say the same. It makes me feel very proud.

Princess Irulan: * Final line spoken by Irulan, when Paul becomes Emperor, just before Arrakis has its first rainfall

Princess Irulan: [[hand; [God; [prophecy; [war; [peace; [hatred; [love; [freedom; [change; [face] Muad'dib had become the ] of ], fulfilling the Fremen ]. Where there was ], Muad'dib would now bring ]. Where there was ], Muad'dib would bring ]. To lead the people to true ], and to ] the ] of Arrakis.

Princess Irulan: In the two standard years that followed, Muad'Dib and his Fremen brought spice production to a standstill. Fearing for his life, Rabban did his best to hide this fact from his uncle, the Baron. Paul's sister, Alia, matured at a frightening rate. Her small body harbored tremendous powers. Paul and Chani's love grew.

Princess Irulan: Following the Bene Gesserit tradition, the old Reverend Mother surrendered her life as she surrendered her knowledge. Jessica has successfully transmuted the poisonous Water of Life. The tremendous power of the Water of Life caused the premature birth of Jessica's daughter, Alia. Alia was born with all the knowledge and powers of a Reverend Mother.

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: * Introducing House Atreides

Princess Irulan: The powerful Bene Gesserit sisterhood for 90 generations has been manipulating bloodlines to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a super being. On Caladan, Jessica, a member of the sisterhood and the bound concubine of Duke Leto Atreides, had been ordered to bear only daughters. Because of her love for the Duke, she disobeyed, and gave birth to a son. Paul... Paul Atreides.

Princess Irulan: * Introductory narrative

Princess Irulan: [[beginning; [time; [Know; [Universe; [w:Shaddam Corrino IV|Shaddam IV; [life; [consciousness; [deserts; [people; [prophecy; [man; [messiah; [freedom; [w:Arrakis|Arrakis] A ] is a very delicate ]. ] then that it is the year 10,191. The Known ] is ruled by the Padishah Emperor ], my father. In this time, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends ]. The spice expands ]. 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 the 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 ] are a ] known as the Fremen, who have long held a ] that a ] would come, a ] who would lead them to true ]. The planet is ], also known as Dune.