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They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.
— Frank Herbert
Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely." "That's
— Frank Herbert
Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.
— Frank Herbert
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
— Frank Herbert
Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate.
— Frank Herbert
There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
— Frank Herbert
It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.
— Frank Herbert
Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present.
— Frank Herbert
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
— Frank Herbert
The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.
— Frank Herbert
The implied methods would permit construction of entirely new computers reduced in size and basic complexity by a factor of at least a thousand.
— Frank Herbert
Law is the ultimate science.
— Frank Herbert
The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.
— Frank Herbert
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
— Frank Herbert
Color streamed into a toe of darkness testing the sand.
— Frank Herbert
There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.
— Frank Herbert
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
— Frank Herbert
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
— Frank Herbert
The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.
— Frank Herbert
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
— Frank Herbert
You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me. The
— Frank Herbert
We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.
— Frank Herbert
The wise man molds himself - the fool lives only to die.
— Frank Herbert
The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.
— Frank Herbert
I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
— Frank Herbert
Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.
— Frank Herbert
Prophets have a way of dying by violence.
— Frank Herbert
As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.
— Frank Herbert
Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.
— Frank Herbert
Money said, "I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.
— Frank Herbert
And he thought: I'm a seed. He
— Frank Herbert
Fate was sometimes inscrutable.
— Frank Herbert
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
— Frank Herbert
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
— Frank Herbert
You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.
— Frank Herbert
Sheeana would learn in time that any person who lived through the decision to die evolved a new emotional balance. Fears were transitory.
— Frank Herbert
Desperate people are the most dangerous.
— Frank Herbert
my deal's the only one in town
— Frank Herbert
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
— Frank Herbert
Insanity is something like drowning,' said Sparrow. 'You go under; you flounder without direction;
— Frank Herbert
The successful writer listens to himself.
— Frank Herbert
Journalism is the entertainment business.
— Frank Herbert
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
— Frank Herbert
Are you a believer or just playing safe?
— Frank Herbert
Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!
— Frank Herbert
It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He
— Frank Herbert
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
— Frank Herbert
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
— Frank Herbert
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
— Frank Herbert
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
— Frank Herbert
There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
— Frank Herbert
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
— Frank Herbert
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
— Frank Herbert
It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.
— Frank Herbert
Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.
— Frank Herbert
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
— Frank Herbert
They'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.
— Frank Herbert
Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.
— Frank Herbert
Mercy is a chimera.
— Frank Herbert
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
— Frank Herbert
It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.
— Frank Herbert
She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.
— Frank Herbert
It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
— Frank Herbert
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
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Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
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how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty - which was to step aside and vanish into history.
— Frank Herbert
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
— Frank Herbert
To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils.
— Frank Herbert
Caution is the path to mediocrity.
— Frank Herbert
Once more the drama begins.' - The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne.
— Frank Herbert
Only those who recognize the value of war and exercise it have any degree of self-determination.
— Frank Herbert
Beginnings are such delicate times.
— Frank Herbert
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
— Frank Herbert
I am not the kind of person I want to be.
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But the tripod upon which Eternity swings is composed of flesh and thought and emotion.
— Frank Herbert
Hard tasks need hard ways.
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Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
— Frank Herbert
The drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable - except when you see it happen in the drawing room.
— Frank Herbert
In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness.
— Frank Herbert
sift people to find the humans.
— Frank Herbert
They compose poems to their knives.
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