150 Best Dune: Part One Quotes

Shadout: When you have lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.

Stilgar: Hmm...
- The boy is young.
- He can learn our ways.
- He may have sanctuary.
- But the woman is untrained...
- And too old to learn.

[Softly] Hawat. Security.
[Normal tone] Security.

- You cross swords with a sardaukar, you know it.
- So, the emperor's taken a side.
- What says the judge of the change?
- The emperor forbids me from saying anything at all.
- And yet you risk your life to help us.

[from teaser trailer]
Gaius: The test is simple. Remove your hand from the box, and you die.
Paul: What's in the box?
Gaius: Pain.

Liet: Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. And keep the world for His people.

- I have you.
- But look down, my lord.
- You'd havejoined me in death.
- I see you found the mood.

- With my life.
- I'm not asking his mother.
- I'm asking the bene gesserit.
- Will you protect Paul?
- Why are you having these thoughts?
- Leto, this is not you.
- I thought we'd have more time.

Paul: [to Stilgar] My father came, not for spice, not for the riches, but for the strength of your people. My road leads into the desert. I can see it. If you'll have us, we will come.

- Bene gesserit ain't all highborn.
[Trooper 1] She's highborn enough for me.
- Let's feed the kid to the worms.
- And give her a long goodbye.
- Don't you dare touch my mother.
- Don't talk.

Paul: [while having a vision] That's the future. It's coming. Holy war spreading across the universe like unquenchable fire.
Lady: Paul, you're scared. I can see it. Tell me, please, what do you fear?
Paul: Somebody help me, please.
Lady: Paul.
Paul: It's coming. I see a holy war spreading across the universe like unquenchable fire. A warrior religion that waves the Atreides banner in my father's name.
Lady: Paul.
Paul: Fanatical legions worshipping at the shrine of my father's skull. A war in my name. Everyone shouting my name!

Baron: No Atreides shall live.
Piter: My lord, you gave your word to the witch, and she sees too much.
Baron: I said I would not harm them and I shall not. But Arrakis is Arrakis and the desert takes the weak. This is my desert. My Arrakis. My Dune.

Paul: [From trailer] Dad, what if I'm not the future of House Atreides?
Duke: A great man doesn't seek to lead; he is called to it. But if your answer is no, you'd still be the only thing I ever needed you to be: my son.

[Voices] A friend...
- A friend will help you.
- Follow the friend.
Jamis: You have much to learn.
- And I will show you the ways of the desert.
- Come with me.

[Dr. Kynes] You can see the spice scattered over the surface.
- A rich spice bed by the color.
- If you get a little higher, you'll have a better view.

- These people have waited for centuries for the lisan al-gaib.
- They see you, they see the signs.
- They see what they've been told to see.
- We're good to go.

[Sternly] Remove her gag.
[Trooper 1] Shut up.

- When you have lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock.
- Lisan al-gaib.
- The mother and the son.
- It is yours.
- Tooth of shai-hulud.

Paul: [to Jessica] My road leads into the desert. I can see it.

- Are you the new weapons master?
- With Duncan Idaho gone,
- I must make do as best I can.
- Choose your blade.
- I've had quite a day, gurney.
- Give us a song instead.
[Smacks lips] That's rude.

- Smile, gurney.
- I am smiling.
- How much will it cost them, traveling all this way for this formality?
- Three guild navigators.
- A total of 1.46 million,
- 62 solaris, round trip.

[Voices] Paul atreides must die...
- For kwisatz haderach to rise.
- Don't be frightened.
- Don't resist.
- When you take a life, you take your own.

Duke: Dr. Kynes. You saw it. With your own eyes. It's plain to see. Everything they've left us is in shambles. We've been set up to fail.
Liet: That carryall was just old. The desert isn't kind to equipment.
Duke: You know what will happen, if I don't get spice production back on track.
Liet: I'm not here to take your part. Arrakis has seen men like you come and go. Take good care of your family. The desert's not kind to humans either.

Duke: [to Paul] Your grandfather said, "A great man doesn't seek to lead. He's called to it. And he answers." And if your answer is no, you'll still be the only thing I ever needed you to be, my son. I found my own way to it. Maybe you'll find yours.

- It's beautiful out there.
[Announcer] Sunrise warning, all workers.
- Temperature today will reach 140 degrees.
- We are currently 90 degrees, and in 10 minutes, we will hit 120 degrees.
- Last warning call.

- The sun's getting too high.
- We need to seal the doors.
- What do they say about this hellhole again?
- "To shower, you scrub your ass with sand," my lord.
- That's what they say.
- That's what they say.
Thufir: Candidates for a housekeeper, my lady.

- I don't believe you're the lisan al-gaib.
- But I want you to die with honor.

Stilgar: You may not challenge a sayyadina.
- Then who will fight in her name?
- Jamis, don't do this.
- Don't. The night is fading.
- Then the sun will witness this death.
- Where is her champion?

Lieutenant: Sir. Sir.
- The shield's come down.
Gurney: God in heaven.
- Get everything with guns off the ground! Go!

[Voices] Kwisatz haderach.
- Kwisatz haderach.
- Climb up. Rise.

- I found my own way to it.
- Maybe you'll find yours.
- In their memory...
- Give it a try.

- There is no call we do not answer, there is no faith that we betray.
- The emperor asks us to bring peace to arrakis.
- House atreides accepts.
- Atreides! Atreides! Atreides!
- Atreides! Atreides! Atreides!
- Your seal.

- Income.
- So, squeeze, rabban.
- Squeeze hard.
- Yes, uncle.
- And the fremen?
- Kill them all.

- We'll have to walk like the fremen do.
- It's called a sandwalk.
- At least according to the filmbooks back home.
Lady: Yeah. Yeah, okay.
Paul: Okay. Follow me.
- Do the same moves.

Paul: Suppose I presented the Emperor with an alternative to chaos. And the Emperor has no sons, and his daughters are yet to marry.
Liet: You'd make a play for the throne? The Emperor feared the Atreides. He brought you here to kill you. What don't you understand? You're a lost boy hiding in a hole in the ground.

- Many times.
- Do you often dream things that happen just as you dreamed them?
- Not exactly.
- Goodbye, young human.
- I hope you live.

- My planet arrakis is so beautiful when the sun is low.
- Rolling over the sands...
- You can see spice in the air.

- How does she know about my dreams?
- And why is Dr. Yueh here?
- He only needs a moment.
[Dr. Yueh] Hello, young master.
- Your mother asked me to check your vitals.
- What's happening?

Gaius: One day, a legend will be born. All of civilization depends on it.

- Why didn't you say you were a weirding woman?
- And a fighter?
- Conversation ran short.
Stilgar: Peace, woman.
- Peace.
- Ijudged hastily.

- Powerful enough to bridge space and time.
- Past and future.
- Who can help us into a better future.
- We think he's very close now.
- Some believe he's here.
- All part of a plan.

Paul: [fighting Jamis] Do you yield?

Gaius: Like sifting sand through a screen, we sift people. If you had been unable to control your impulses like an animal, we could not have let you live. You inherit too much power.
Paul: What, because I'm a Duke's son?
Gaius: Because you are Jessica's son. You have more than one birthright, boy.

Herald of the Change: By the grace of Shaddam IV of House Corrino, ascendant to the Golden Lion Throne of Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe, I stand before you as Herald of the Change. We are witnessed by members of the Imperial Court, representatives of the Spacing Guild and a sister of the Bene Gesserit. The Emperor has spoken. "House Atreides shall immediately take control of Arrakis and serve as its steward." Do you accept?

Paul: How dare you use the voice on me?

- Holy war spreading across the universe like unquenchable fire.

Paul: It's a thumper.
- Someone set off a thumper.
Lady: Paul! Run!
- How big are they?
- That was insane.
- Someone called it.

Paul: It wasn't an allergic reaction. I had a vision. My eyes were wide open.

- "My lungs taste the air of time, blown past falling sand..."

Thufir: Shield wall.
- Protects the city from the weather and the worms.

Piter: The Duke's son, he sees too much.

- And you will never be hunted while I govern here.
- That's very honorable.
- I must go. That's all
- I have to say to you.
Paul: Won't you stay?
- We would honor you.
- Honor requires that I be elsewhere.

Paul: Get away from me! You did this to me! Your Bene Gesserit turned me into a Freak!

Chani: My planet, Arrakis, is so beautiful when the sun is low. Rolling over the sands, you can see spice in the air.

- No need to call the guards.
- Your mother stands behind that door.
- No one would get past her.
Paul: Why are you doing this?
- An animal caught in a trap will gnaw off its own leg to escape.
- What will you do?

- A meeting's long overdue.
- And we'll get a bit of imperial protection.
- A hostage. [Chuckles]
- I love it.
- Hmm.
- He's here, my lord.

- 80 years of owning the spice fields.
- Can you imagine the wealth?
- Your eyes.
- I need to see it in your eyes.
- You never met harkonnens before, I have.
- They're not human, they're brutal!
- You have to be ready.

Gaius: You've proven you can rule yourself. Now you must learn to rule others, something none of your ancestors learnt.
Paul: My father rules an entire planet.
Gaius: He's losing it.
Paul: He's getting a richer one.
Gaius: He'll lose that one too.

- I said I'd set her free.
- That you could join her.
- So, join her.

Duncan: Let's fight like demons!

- And when it has gone past...
- I will turn the inner eye and see its path. [Gasps]
[Sobs] And where the fear has gone, there will be nothing.
- Only I will remain.
- Enough.

- have our escorts throw out the shield generators.
Gurney: Yes, sire.
Leto: And, Paul, I want you at the back of the thopter.
- Guide them in.
- Delta ajax niner, put seven men each in my ships now.

[Distorted voice] Remove her gag.
[Distorted voice] Kill him.
[Distorted voice] Set us free.

- [Gunshofl
- Our warriors couldn't free arrakis from the harkonnens, but one day, by imperial decree, they were gone.
- Why did the emperor choose this path?
- And who will our next oppressors be?

- and by extension, her son.
- Allow them the dignity of exile.
- House harkonnen would never dream of violating the sanctity of your order.
- I give you my word.
- We will not harm them.

[Over radio] This is Duke leto atreides.
- We 're coming down to extract the crew of delta ajax niner.
- We'll set down on the west.

Paul: This is an extermination. They're picking my family off one by one.

- Some things, though, are crystal clear.
- I can feel it.
- I know you're pregnant.
- You can't know that.
- I barely know that.
- It's only been a few weeks.

- Atreides!
- Atreides! Atreides! Atreides!
- Atreides! Atreides! Atreides!
- Atreides! Atreides!
Thufir: Let's get you out of the sun.
- The heat can kill in this place.

- Seven over here, seven over there.
- Go! Go! Go!

- The great sandworm.
- This will be a great honor, for you to die holding it.
- Where is the outworlder?
- Jamis is a good fighter.
- He won't let you suffer.
- Chani...

- by stopping it.
- We must move with the flow of the process.
- We must join it.
- We must flow with it.
[Voices] Let go.
- Let go.

Gaius: [to Paul] Goodbye, young human. I hope you live.

Duncan: Look at you. You put on some muscles.
Paul: I did?
Duncan: No.

[repeated line]
Paul: Desert power.

- Duncan.
- Well done.
- Thank you, my lord.
[Man] Sire.
- Their leader has a knife he won't surrender, sire.
- It's a crysknife.
- It's sacred to his people.
- Let him pass.

Duncan: Dreams make good stories, but everything important happens when we're awake.

Liet: I serve only one master. His name is Shai-Hulud.

- not for the riches, but for the strength of your people.
- My road leads into the desert.
- I can see it.
- If you'll have us, we will come.

Gaius: Arrakis is a death trap.

- At nightfall, the spice harvesters land.
- The outsiders race against time to avoid the heat of the day.

- That's Duncan.
- My lady.
- Paul.
- I'm so sorry. Your father...
- We know.
- My lord Duke.

- Paul, you're scared. I can see it.
- Tell me, please, what do you fear?

- Tanat will you find stillsuits to fit our visitors?
Tanat: Yes, liet.
[Dr. Kynes] Shamir, a coffee service, please.
Shamir: Of course, liet.
- Who are you to the fremen?

Gurney: Hey!
- Bless the maker and his water.
- Bless the coming and going of him.
- May his passage cleanse the world and keep the world for his people.

- Don't be too sure it's an act of love.
- What does he mean?
- When is a gift not a gift?
- The atreides' voice is rising, and the emperor is a jealous man.
- A dangerous, jealous man.

Beast: Uncle, how did we let this happen? How can the Emperor take everything we've built and give it to that Duke? How?
Piter: Don't be too sure, it's an act of love.
Beast: What does he mean?
Baron: When is a gift not a gift? The Atreides Voice is rising and the Emperor is a jealous man. A dangerous, jealous man.

Duke: Here I am, here I remain.

[Paul is to practice fencing with Gurney]
Paul: I guess I'm not in the mood today.
Gurney: Mood? What's mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises, no matter the mood. Now fight!
[the two begin fighting, and Paul eventually puts his blade to Gurney's throat]
Gurney: I see you found the mood.

[Distorted voice] Stop!
- Cut the rope.
- Give me the knife.
- Your pitch was too forced.
Paul: It's a fremkit.
- They've crippled the ship.

- You dismiss my mother in her own house.
[Mohiam in distorted voice] Come here.
- Kneel how dare you use the voice on me?
[Normal voice] Put your right hand in the box.
- Your mother bade you obey me.

- and report this attack to the landsraad.
Lady: How?
- I'm fremen.
- The desert's my home.
- Good luck.
Paul: Good luck.

- Mood?
- Yeah.
- What's mood to do with it?
- You fight when the necessity arises, no matter the mood.
- Now fight!
- Come on!

Duncan: Will you tell the great houses of the landsraad how we were betrayed?
- How the best of them were murdered?
- I am commanded to say nothing.
- To see nothing.
- The emperor sent us here to die.

Lady: Did you have to go that far?
Gaius: You chose to train him in the Way, in defiance of our rule. He wields our power. He had to be tested to the limits. So much potential, wasted in a male. You were told to bear only daughters. But you, in your pride, thought you could produce the Kwisatz Haderach.
Lady: Was I wrong?
Gaius: You're lucky he didn't die in that room. If he is The One, he has a long way to go. His Sight is barely awakened, and now he goes into the fire. But our plans are measured in centuries. We have other prospects if he fails his promise.
Lady: Do you see so little hope?
Gaius: On Arrakis, we have done all we can for you. A path has been laid. Let's hope he doesn't squander it.

Gurney: You don't really understand the grave nature of what's happening to us. For 80 years Arrakis belonged to House Harkonnen. Eighty years of owning the spice fields. Can you imagine the wealth? In your eyes, I need to see it in your eyes. You never met Harkonnens before. I have. They are not human. They're brutal! You have to be ready.

- when it's already been decided?
- Ceremony.
- Thank you.
- If you want it, make me give it to you.
- Use the voice.
- Mom, I just woke up.

- May thy knife chip and shatter.
- You should welcome my blade.
- This world will kill you.
- Quicker this way.

- of the spacing guild to find safe paths between the stars.
- Without spice, interstellar travel is impossible, making it by far the most valuable substance in the universe.

[Dr. Yueh] Have a good night, master Paul.
Paul: Good night, Dr. Yueh.
Lady: You need to sleep.
- Not like that.
- I should have married you.

- Always. They're drawn by rhythmic noises.
Paul: Why don't we just shield the crawlers?
- A shield's a death sentence in the desert.
- It attracts the worms and drives them into a killing frenzy.
- Is that a worm?

[In English] I serve only one master.
- His name is shai-hulud.

- My lord.
- How are you, old friend?
- My advance team has secured the city.
- We're still smoothing out a few rough spots.
- My lady.
[Woman] Lisan al-gaib!

- such as saguaro, burrobush, sand-verbena and incense bush.
- The Shepherd's tree has the deepest documented roots, stretching more than 450 feet deep.
- These plants cling to life in a parched, nutrient-poor landscape.

Narrator: Dreams are messages from the deep.

- Are you trying to get me court-martialed?
- What's going on?
- Can I trust you with something?
- Always. You know that.
- I've been having dreams.
- About arrakis and the fremen.

- Almost.
[Normal voice] Almost?
- Bene gesserit skills take years to learn, Paul.
Paul: Mm-hmm.
- You look tired.
- More dreams?

- Spice is a psychoactive chemical.
- You seem to be sensitive.
- You'll be fine.
- Thank you, Dr. Yueh.

Sardaukar: We are the blades of the emperor!

Duke: Jessica. You gave me a son, and from the moment he was born I never questioned you. I trusted you completely, even when you walked in shadows. Now I'm asking you this one thing. If anything happens, will you protect our son?
Lady: With... my life.
Duke: I'm not asking his mother, I'm asking the Bene Gesserit. Will you protect Paul?
Lady: Why are you having these thoughts? Leto, this is not you.
Duke: I thought we had more time.

- and lost him in battle.
- I know you walk in two worlds and are known by many names.
- I've seen your dream.
- As emperor, Dr. Kynes,
- I could make a paradise ofarrakis with a wave of my hand.

- representatives of the spacing guild and a sister of the bene gesserit.
- The emperor has spoken.
- "House atreides shall immediately take control ofarrakis and serve as its steward."
- Do you accept?

- Where are they?
[Crawler] Sir, there's protocol for a reason.
- If we take one step out there, we're as good as dead.
- Besides, we've got a full load of spice.
- We can't just leave it.
- Damn the spice!
- I want every man off that crawler now!

- I'm going to replace your peg tooth.
- If you bite down hard, this tooth will crush.
- Breathe out, and you will fill the air with poison.
- It will be your last breath.
- But if you choose your moment well, it will also be the baron's.

- This is Dr. Yueh's handwriting.
- "If anyone makes it out of arrakeen alive, there's an atreides beacon in the fremkit.
- God willing, they'll be able to find you."

[Eerie voices] Kwisatz haderach.
- You can see.

Chani: [to Paul] I don't believe you're the Lisan al-Ghaib.. but I want you to die with honor.
[offers Paul her knife]
Chani: This crysknife was given to me by my great aunt. Its made from a tooth of Shai Hulud, the great sandworm. This will be a great honor for you to die holding it.
Jamis: [yelling angrily, ready to fight] Where is the outworlder?
Chani: [to Paul] Jamis is a good fighter. He won't let you suffer

- Now we have to find the fremen.
- Are you good?
Lady: Yeah.

Chani: Paul.

- That wasn't an allergic reaction.
- I had a vision.
- My eyes were wide open.
- What did you see?

Jamis: [Paul's vision] The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. We must flow with it.

- No! Duncan!
Lady: Paul, no!
Paul: Duncan, no!
Lady: No!
Paul: No!
Lady: Paul, no!
Paul: Duncan, no!
- He's locked the door.
Paul: Duncan! No!

Lady: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings obliteration. I will face my fear and 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.

- but everything important happens when we're awake.
- 'Cause that's when we make things happen.
- Look at you. Put on some muscle?
- I did?
- Hey.
- See you on arrakis, my boy.

- Their cruelty to my people is all I've known.
- These outsiders, the harkonnens, came long before I was born.
- By controlling spice production, they became obscenely rich.
- Richer than the emperor himself.

- He's gone.
Paul: Duncan!
- We have to go. We have no choice.
Lady: Paul, go! Paul!
[Dr. Kynes] Come on.
- Come on, come on!

Paul: It's close by.
- Let's get out of here.
- Wait.
- It's drum sand.
Paul: Run.
Lady: Go! Go!

- Paul.
[Softly] Paul, wake up.
- What's wrong?
- Get dressed and come with me.

Gaius: [to Paul] An animal caught in a trap will gnaw off its own leg to escape. What will you do?

[last lines]
Chani: This is only the beginning.

- Lisan! Lisan al-gaib!
- Lisan al-gaib! Lisan al-gaib!

- Do you yield?
- The boy doesn't know our rule.
- There's no yielding under the amtal rule.
- Only death is the test of it.
- Is he toying with him?
- No.
- Paul has never killed a man.

Duke: We are House Atreides. There is no call we do not answer. There is no faith that we betray. The Emperor asks us to bring peace to Arrakis. House Atreides accepts!

[Paul softly] Someone's near.
- You need to drink.
- It's recycled water from the tent.
- Sweat and tears.
- All right, let's get out of here.

Baron: This is MY dune. Kill them all.

- So, it's done?
- It's done.

Lieutenant: Atreides!
[Guards] Atreides!

- On arrakis, we need to cultivate desert power.
- I want you sitting in on my council.
- Learn what I do.
- What if I'm not, dad?
- Not what?
- The future of house atreides.

[Piter in English] Atreides legions are the finest in the lmperium.
- Trained by gurney halleck and Duncan Idaho.
[In English] Just so.
- Three battalions.
- As agreed.

[Crawler] Try it again!
- How many men on that crawler?
- Crew of21.
Leto: Our ships can take six each.
- That's still three short.
- We'll find a way.

Duke: Smile, Gurney.
Gurney: [blankly] I am smiling.

[In English] His heart is strong as ever, my lady.
- Paul...

- You know what will happen if I don't get spice production back on track.
- I'm not here to take your part.
- Arrakis has seen men like you come and go.
- Take good care of your family.
- The desert's not kind to humans either.

Chani: The outsiders ravage our land in front of our eyes. Their cruelty to my people is all I've known. What's to become of our world, Paul?

- I must not fear.
- Fear is the mind-killer.
- Fear is the little death that brings obliteration.
- And I'll face my fear and I'll permit it to pass over me and through me.

[Mohiam] The thing must leave.
[Man] You can speak without fear.
- Our pet doesn't understand your language.
[Mohiam in distorted voice] Get out.
[Normal voice] It understands.
- Activate silence.

- Your desert boots are fitted slip-fashion at the ankles.
- Who taught you to do that?
- It seemed the right way.
[In English] Are you fremen?
- I am accepted in both sietch and village.
- Now, come and see the spice sands on which your livelihood depends.

- You are your father's son.
- You are my son.
- You are the Duke Paul atreides.
- You know who you are.
- You know who you are.
[Distorted voice] Get off me!
[Normal voice] You did this to me!
- You bene gesserit made me a freak!

- Give me the water.
- The glass can't hear you.
- Command me.

[Vladimir] Hmm.
[Dr. Yueh] I delivered the Duke and his family.
[Vladimir] The bargain to the letter.
- And what was I to do for you?
- Deliver my wife from her agony.
[Vladimir] Yes.