Frank Herbert Quotes

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent -- he solves.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. —

When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

You don’t see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

You must be always hungry and thirsty. The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. Like me.

Никога не подценявайте силата на самозаблуждението да филтрира това, което очите виждат и ушите чуват.Случаят Абнет, Секретни досиета на БюСаб

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.

A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with ever...

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All re...

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.

Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance

As you well know, the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.

But that’s the function I expect of you, cousin. It’s why I chose you. I’ll make it official. I will give you a new name. From this moment, you’ll be called Breaking of the Habit, which in our tongue...

Can you remember your first taste of spice? It tasted like cinnamon. But never twice the same, he said. It’s like life—it presents a different face each time you take it. Some hold that the spice prod...