Dune Messiah

by

Frank Herbert

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The Jihad was a war that took place prior to Dune Messiah, fought between the Fremen (led by Paul Atreides) and their oppressors. After the Fremen won the war, they continued a religious Jihad, using violence to subdue the universe under the Muad’Dib’s rule.

Jihad Quotes in Dune Messiah

The Dune Messiah quotes below are all either spoken by Jihad or refer to Jihad. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3 Quotes

I’ll yield up myself, he thought. I’ll rush out while I yet have the strength, fly through space like a bird might not find. It was a useless thought, and he knew it. The Jihad would follow his ghost.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker)
Page Number: 46
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Chapter 5 Quotes

His prescient power had tampered with the image of the universe held by all mankind. He had shaken the safe cosmos and replaced security with his Jihad. He had out-fought and out-thought and out-predicted the universe of men, but a certainty filled him that the universe still eluded him.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib)
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 83
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Chapter 9 Quotes

“People cling to the Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place […] Perhaps religion serves the same purpose.”

Related Characters: Stilgar (speaker), Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) , Edric
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 134
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“[Genghis Khan] didn’t kill them himself. […] He killed the way I kill, by sending out his legions. There’s another emperor I want you to note in passing—a Hitler. He killed more than six million. Pretty good for those days.”

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker), Edric , Stilgar
Related Symbols: Eyes
Page Number: 138
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Chapter 19 Quotes

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws must inevitably replace morality, replace conscience, even replace the religion by which you think to govern.

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker), Alia Atreides (speaker), Korba (speaker), Lady Jessica (speaker)
Page Number: 257
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Chapter 23 Quotes

He wanted to turn to the aides massed in the sietch entrance, shout at them: if you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!

Related Characters: Paul Atreides (Muad’Dib) (speaker), Chani (speaker)
Page Number: 305
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