Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man -… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort. They were… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
