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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

Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for! — 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

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

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. — Frank Herbert

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science. — Frank Herbert

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION. — Frank Herbert

The wise man molds himself - the fool lives only to die. — Frank Herbert

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them? — 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

Frank Herbert said that Fear is the mind-killer. He was a wise man. — Kevin Hearne

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

You do not beg the sun for mercy.
-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary — 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

Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides. The — Frank Herbert

The future is a thing to be shaped," Scytale said. "Hold that thought, Princess. — 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

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. — Frank Herbert

The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered. — Frank Herbert

Pale northern complexion that turned to burn at the drop of a sunbeam. — 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

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right
decisions. — 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

Canterbury was gone from the memories of men, as was the planet which had known it. — Frank Herbert

We will not run," Paul said. "We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done. — 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. — Frank Herbert

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself. — Frank Herbert

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

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. — Frank Herbert

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — Frank Herbert

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach. — Frank Herbert

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. — Frank Herbert

You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will. — Frank Herbert

I am not the kind of person I want to be. — Frank Herbert

But the tripod upon which Eternity swings is composed of flesh and thought and emotion. — Frank Herbert

Hard tasks need hard ways. — Frank Herbert

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. — Frank Herbert

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. — Frank Herbert