Top 500 Frank Herbert Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population.”

— Frank Herbert

352. “The spice must flow.”

— Frank Herbert

353. “All rebels are closet aristocrats. That’s why I can convert them so easily.”

— Frank Herbert

354. “A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

356. “My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.”

— Frank Herbert

357. “Gurney says there’s no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.”

— Frank Herbert

358. “Pain,” she sniffed. “A human can override any nerve in the body.”

— Frank Herbert

359. “The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We.”

— Frank Herbert

360. “Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.”

— Frank Herbert

361. “Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.”

— Frank Herbert

362. “You see, Count, I have the Emperor’s prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me.” The.”

— Frank Herbert

363. “You know it’s love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

— Frank Herbert

364. “Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” Jessica.”

— Frank Herbert

365. “It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.”

— Frank Herbert

366. “Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.”

— Frank Herbert

367. “Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul’s face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.”

— Frank Herbert

368. “I’m the well-trained fruit tree, he thought. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me – all bearing for someone else to pick.”

— Frank Herbert

369. “Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.”

— Frank Herbert

370. “Reason is valuable,” he said, “only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe.” Her.”

— Frank Herbert

371. “And those who pray for dew on the deserts edge; shall bring forth the deluge.”

— Frank Herbert

372. “The Zensunni approach to birth,” he said, urging her even faster, “is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”

— Frank Herbert

373. “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

374. “Feints within feints within feints.”

— Frank Herbert

375. “And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.”

— Frank Herbert

376. “That path leads ever down into stagnation.”

— Frank Herbert

377. “Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe – a man to be trusted because the captain’s vices were known.”

— Frank Herbert

378. “I should’ve suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.”

— Frank Herbert

379. “There’s no such thing as equal justice anywhere. It’s unsettling to a society when you try to achieve such a false balance.”

— Frank Herbert

380. “A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.”

— Frank Herbert

381. “Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.”

— Frank Herbert

382. “You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach.” Jessica.”

— Frank Herbert

383. “The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II.”

— Frank Herbert

384. “The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow...”

— Frank Herbert

385. “No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.”

— Frank Herbert

386. “Anything and anyone can fail,” he said, “but brave good friends help.”

— Frank Herbert

387. “They’ve lost the initiative, which means they’ve lost the war.” Gurney.”

— Frank Herbert

388. “What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground – and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.”

— Frank Herbert

389. “That which submits rules.”

— Frank Herbert

390. “Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? –.”

— Frank Herbert

391. “We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.”

— Frank Herbert

392. “Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.”

— Frank Herbert

393. “Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!”

— Frank Herbert

394. “Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles – the CHOAM Company.”

— Frank Herbert

395. “The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

— Frank Herbert

396. “To accept a little death is worse than death itself.”

— Frank Herbert

397. “All around the Lady Jessica – piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces – stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases – some partly unpacked.”

— Frank Herbert

398. “What the eyes had seen could not be erased.”

— Frank Herbert

399. “Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert