Frank Herbert Quotes
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401. “That which submits rules.”

— Frank Herbert

402. “Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.”

— Frank Herbert

403. “The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn’t tell them?”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

405. “Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.” He glanced at the charts on the table. “And Arrakis is just another place.”

— Frank Herbert

406. “The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.”

— Frank Herbert

407. “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 is Harq al-Ada. Come, cousin, don’t be obtuse. My mother taught you well. Give me your Sardaukar.”

— Frank Herbert

408. “One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.”

— Frank Herbert

409. “The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires.”

— Frank Herbert

410. “Shield!” the old woman snapped. “You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he’ll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.”

— Frank Herbert

411. “Life produces a different taste each time you take it.”

— Frank Herbert

412. “What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can,” Edric said.”

— Frank Herbert

413. “Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.”

— Frank Herbert

414. “I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.”

— Frank Herbert

415. “What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?”

— Frank Herbert

416. “The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This has often been the approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists.”

— Frank Herbert

417. “She’s the One all right,” she muttered. “Poor thing.”

— Frank Herbert

418. “A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.”

— Frank Herbert

419. “The struggle between life elements is the struggle for the free energy of a system.”

— Frank Herbert

420. “Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”

— Frank Herbert

421. “Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.”

— Frank Herbert

422. “The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.”

— Frank Herbert

423. “Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura,” the Duke said. “I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.”

— Frank Herbert

424. “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

425. “The past is no farther away than your pillow.”

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426. “Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.”

— Frank Herbert

427. “This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You’ve learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.”

— Frank Herbert

428. “Journalism is the entertainment business.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

430. “A voice hissed: “He sheds tears!” It was taken around the ring “Usal gives moisture to the dead!” He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.”

— Frank Herbert

431. “Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.”

— Frank Herbert

432. “For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow’s life.”

— Frank Herbert

433. “One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.”

— Frank Herbert

434. “To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There’s no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.”

— Frank Herbert

435. “You shall be known among us as Usul, the base of the pillar. This is your secret name, your troop name. We of Sietch.”

— Frank Herbert

436. “Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.”

— Frank Herbert

437. “War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.”

— Frank Herbert

438. “Once more the drama begins.′ – The Emperor Paul Muad’dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne.”

— Frank Herbert

439. “It is another kind of marriage – the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat’s explanation and his excuse.”

— Frank Herbert

440. “You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade’s edge and its tip.”

— Frank Herbert

441. “On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power,” the Duke said. “Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.”

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442. “The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. –.”

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443. “One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.”

— Frank Herbert

444. “Culture! They dispense culture the better to rule. Beauty! They promote the beauty which enslaves. They create a literate ignorance – easiest thing of all. They leave nothing to chance. Chains! Everything they do forges chains, enslaves. But slaves always revolt.”

— Frank Herbert

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

— Frank Herbert

446. “Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.”

— Frank Herbert

447. “A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.”

— Frank Herbert

448. “Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides.” The.”

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449. “I’ve heard enough sad histories of gods and messiahs. Why should I need special powers to forecast ruins of my own like all those others?”

— Frank Herbert

450. “Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?”

— Frank Herbert