Top 20 Quotes From Paul Atreides

Paul: We must totally destroy all spice production on Arrakis. The Guild and the entire Universe depends on spice. He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.

Paul: [sees Thufir] My God.
[inner voice]
Paul: They've taken your mind.
[out loud]
Paul: Gurney, I see Thufir Hawat among the captives. Let him stand free.
Feyd: [turns towards Thufir] The antidote.
[he slips a knife inside Thufir's sleeve]
Gurney: Thufir, come.
Paul: In payment of the many years of service to my family, you may ask me of anything you wish. Do you need my life, old friend? It is yours.
[turns around]
Paul: I mean this Thufir, if you are to strike, do it now.
Thufir: [raises knife, to everyone's shock, but drops it and turns back to Feyd] Did you truly believe, even for a moment, that I would fail my Duke TWICE?
[He rips out his own heart plug, then collapses into Paul's arms]
Thufir: Three generations of... you...
[he dies]
Paul: Carry this noble Atreides warrior away. Do him all honor.

Thufir: Now, remember, the first step in avoiding a *trap* - is knowing of its existence.
Paul: I know. But, if it is a trap, then why are we going?
Thufir: We have our new Army. Dr. Yueh, put the weirding module on him.
[Thufir holds Paul's shoulders admiringly, then playfully mimes stabbing him in the side of the neck]

Paul: Now remember, walk without rhythm, and we won't attract the worm.

Paul: The Harkonnens are our enemy. Yes. But, behind them I suspect is the Emperor.
Thufir: You will make a formidable Duke!

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: Do you know of the Water of Life? The bile from the ill-borne worms of Arrakis?
Paul: I have heard of it.
Reverend: 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: They tried and died.

Paul: Irulan shall be my wife, opening the way to the Golden Lion Throne for House Atreides.
Padishah: *I* sit on the throne!
Paul: You will have a throne on Selusa Secundus - your prison planet, and the training ground for your accursed Sardaukar.
[uses the voice]
Paul: EITHER THAT, OR YOU WILL DIE.
[walks towards Chani]
Paul: The princess shall have no more of me than my name... no child of mine, nor touch, nor softness of glance, nor instant of desire.
[he tenderly strokes her cheek]
Paul: These things I promise to you, my love.
Lady: Think of it, Chani. We who carry the name of concubine... history will call us wives.

Paul: Father! The sleeper has awakened!

Paul: Would you really have drawn my blood?
Gurney: If you'd have fought one whit below your abilities; I'd have given you a good scar to remind ye.

Paul: Long live the fighters!

Paul: Emperor Shaddam IV, there are Guild Heighliners above us containing many Great Houses of the Laandsraad. Send them back.
Padishah: How dare you speak to me in...
Guild: Stop your speaking!
Paul: You have some idea of what I could do.
Paul: [the Reverend Mother Mohiam growls at him] Don't try your powers on me. Try looking into that place where you dare not look.You'll find me there, staring back at you.
Reverend: [DELETED LINE] Silence him, Jessica!
Lady: [DELETED LINE] Silence him yourself, if you can.
Paul: [DELETED LINE] For ninety generations you and your Bene Gesserit have labored in secret to produce a living, breathing super-weapon... one that would empower you to overthrow both the Guild and the Emperor. Indeed. This weapon, I am. And these goals, I have achieved. *But I will NEVER be YOURS to control.*
Reverend: [Using the Voice] *You mustn't speak... *
Paul: [Also using the Voice, which overpowers her] SILENCE!
[she is knocked backward against several Guild Workers]
Paul: I remember your gom jabbar, now you'll remember mine. I can kill with a word.

Paul: Is this what you seek?
Gurney: Good! Fast on defense, slow on attack. But, ah, look down.
[Gurney has penetrated Paul's shield as well]
Gurney: We'd have joined each other in death. You did seem, finally, to get in the mood.

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.

Reverend: Put your right hand in the box.
Paul: What's in the box?
Reverend: Pain.

Paul: We Fremen have a saying: "God created Arrakis to train the faithful." One cannot go against the word of God.

Paul: ...My father sent you to test me, didn't he?
[He indicates Gurney's baliset]
Paul: Music, then?
Gurney: No music. I'm packing this for the crossing.
[He sets down the baliset]
Gurney: Shield practice.
Paul: Again? Gurney, we had practice all this morning. I'm not in the mood.
Gurney: Not in the mood? Mood's a thing for cattle and loveplay, not fighting!
Paul: I'm sorry, Gurney.
Gurney: Not sorry enough, not yet!
[He activates his shield and attacks Paul, who activates his own shield barely in time]
Paul: [to himself] What's wrong with Gurney? He's not faking this!
Gurney: Now, guard yourself for true!

Paul: Stilgar, do we have wormsign?
Stilgar: Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen.

Paul: Father!
[inner voice]
Paul: Father, I promise, one day, the sleeper will awaken and I will avenge your death. I will not stop until I destroy the Emperor and the Baron.

Stilgar: You have strength. You shall be known as Usul - 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!