The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.


Frank Herbert

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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...
FRANK HERBERT