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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
FRANK HERBERT

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have becom...
FRANK HERBERT

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
FRANK HERBERT

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of y...
FRANK HERBERT Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin...
FRANK HERBERT Fear is the mind-killer.
FRANK HERBERT Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the r...
FRANK HERBERT There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
FRANK HERBERT What does a mirror look at?
FRANK HERBERT Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religi...
FRANK HERBERT Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on...
FRANK HERBERT My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Some...
FRANK HERBERT There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'...
FRANK HERBERT Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit...
FRANK HERBERT The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wi...
FRANK HERBERT Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you ...
FRANK HERBERT Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
FRANK HERBERT Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's...
FRANK HERBERT Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckle...
FRANK HERBERT The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-im...
FRANK HERBERT What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thin...
FRANK HERBERT Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
FRANK HERBERT It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the fu...
FRANK HERBERT The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.
FRANK HERBERT Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
FRANK HERBERT The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
FRANK HERBERT Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
FRANK HERBERT Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find ...
FRANK HERBERT He who controls the spice controls the universe.
FRANK HERBERT The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think...
FRANK HERBERT It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more ...
FRANK HERBERT Hope clouds observation.
FRANK HERBERT There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
FRANK HERBERT When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their wa...
FRANK HERBERT What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
FRANK HERBERT The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
FRANK HERBERT Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
FRANK HERBERT Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
FRANK HERBERT I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
FRANK HERBERT One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespre...
FRANK HERBERT Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now it's comp...
FRANK HERBERT If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despoti...
FRANK HERBERT Journalism is the entertainment business.
FRANK HERBERT The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
FRANK HERBERT The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of actio...
FRANK HERBERT The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
FRANK HERBERT How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
FRANK HERBERT What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties i...
FRANK HERBERT All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
FRANK HERBERT Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
FRANK HERBERT Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their pass...
FRANK HERBERT the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange…The spice extends life… expands...
FRANK HERBERT In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the ...
FRANK HERBERT There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
FRANK HERBERT Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? Wh...
FRANK HERBERT Muad'dib rules everywhere," he said.
"Arrakis is not my destination," she insisted.
"A...
FRANK HERBERT You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned...
FRANK HERBERT It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is neve...
FRANK HERBERT To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other i...
FRANK HERBERT If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despoti...
FRANK HERBERT A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process,...
FRANK HERBERT Truth is subject to too much analysis.
FRANK HERBERT There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your ...
FRANK HERBERT Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty.
FRANK HERBERT Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. ...
FRANK HERBERT Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human ...
FRANK HERBERT A human being can stand any amount of pain.
FRANK HERBERT The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
FRANK HERBERT I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT Something cannot emerge from nothing.
FRANK HERBERT We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying
FRANK HERBERT Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated t...
FRANK HERBERT She rides the sandworm of space!
She guides through all storms
Into the land of gentle win...
FRANK HERBERT Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
FRANK HERBERT There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and fr...
FRANK HERBERT Hard tasks need hard ways.
FRANK HERBERT Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the word...
FRANK HERBERT Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever r...
FRANK HERBERT All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not tha...
FRANK HERBERT Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as...
FRANK HERBERT Theres no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves
FRANK HERBERT I cry for those not yet dead.
FRANK HERBERT Hey, that turned out not to be such a good idea. I'd better not do that anymore.
FRANK HERBERT Fear is the mind killer
FRANK HERBERT To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other i...
FRANK HERBERT There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover
FRANK HERBERT If you believe yourself sufficiently hungry, you will eat your own thoughts
FRANK HERBERT The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalen...
FRANK HERBERT Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you
FRANK HERBERT He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
FRANK HERBERT A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rat...
FRANK HERBERT Truth suffers from too much analysis.
FRANK HERBERT The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
FRANK HERBERT Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
FRANK HERBERT Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
FRANK HERBERT Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's com...
FRANK HERBERT A world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the pray...
FRANK HERBERT This is the fallacy of power: ultimately it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. Bu...
FRANK HERBERT Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The ma...
FRANK HERBERT When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, a...
FRANK HERBERT When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their wa...
FRANK HERBERT Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit...
FRANK HERBERT Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it
FRANK HERBERT I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only...
FRANK HERBERT The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver ...
FRANK HERBERT No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor ...
FRANK HERBERT Truth suffers from too much analysis.

-Ancient Fremen Saying
FRANK HERBERT When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
FRANK HERBERT Education is no substitute for intelligence.
FRANK HERBERT We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the track...
FRANK HERBERT Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize human...
FRANK HERBERT As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.
FRANK HERBERT CHOAM is business and business follows profits.
FRANK HERBERT Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.
FRANK HERBERT Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.
FRANK HERBERT When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
FRANK HERBERT We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest...
FRANK HERBERT Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water d...
FRANK HERBERT I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you app...
FRANK HERBERT There’s no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves
FRANK HERBERT When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of your...
FRANK HERBERT You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die
FRANK HERBERT To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowin...
FRANK HERBERT To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are ...
FRANK HERBERT The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria
FRANK HERBERT Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain fut...
FRANK HERBERT ....the most persistent principles of the universe [are] accident and error.
FRANK HERBERT Why are you mad at me?
FRANK HERBERT The Road to Dune
FRANK HERBERT Here lies a fallen god His fall was not a small one, We did but build his pedestal An narrow and a t...
FRANK HERBERT Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by h...
FRANK HERBERT It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is neve...
FRANK HERBERT Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know
FRANK HERBERT Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . the hum...
FRANK HERBERT It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe lear...
FRANK HERBERT Humans are almost always lonely.
FRANK HERBERT If Wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
FRANK HERBERT I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I...
FRANK HERBERT Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
FRANK HERBERT What do you despise? By this are you truly known
FRANK HERBERT One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires tha...
FRANK HERBERT Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.
FRANK HERBERT There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and gra...
FRANK HERBERT A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract th...
FRANK HERBERT The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
FRANK HERBERT But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew...
FRANK HERBERT The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.
FRANK HERBERT Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
FRANK HERBERT We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the fir...
FRANK HERBERT Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool y...
FRANK HERBERT The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
FRANK HERBERT A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, ...
FRANK HERBERT One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
FRANK HERBERT There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Ju...
FRANK HERBERT She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues...
FRANK HERBERT The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act...
FRANK HERBERT People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is ...
FRANK HERBERT I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all...
FRANK HERBERT Peace punishes mistakes without rewarding brilliance.
FRANK HERBERT The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.
FRANK HERBERT Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
FRANK HERBERT Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepare...
FRANK HERBERT These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prospe...
FRANK HERBERT He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test ...
FRANK HERBERT Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especia...
FRANK HERBERT The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.
“Nothing about religion is simple.
FRANK HERBERT Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
FRANK HERBERT You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.
FRANK HERBERT A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the...
FRANK HERBERT One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.
FRANK HERBERT You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
FRANK HERBERT When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bri...
FRANK HERBERT What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and...
FRANK HERBERT I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.
FRANK HERBERT ... one doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.
FRANK HERBERT This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to sla...
FRANK HERBERT There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.
FRANK HERBERT The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique cap...
FRANK HERBERT Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children kn...
FRANK HERBERT Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You co...
FRANK HERBERT He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.
FRANK HERBERT A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language y...
FRANK HERBERT Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They f...
FRANK HERBERT I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness ...
FRANK HERBERT She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
FRANK HERBERT I observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about ou...
FRANK HERBERT Where is Alia?' she asked.
'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,...
FRANK HERBERT you can’t buy security
FRANK HERBERT You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
FRANK HERBERT My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the stren...
FRANK HERBERT A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the lev...
FRANK HERBERT Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
FRANK HERBERT Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on...
FRANK HERBERT Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.
FRANK HERBERT The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric....
FRANK HERBERT the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
FRANK HERBERT Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.
FRANK HERBERT he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning “That path leads ever down into s...
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