The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Leadership and our dependence on it (how and why we choose particular leaders) is a much misunderstood historical phenomenon.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of… — 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.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“You see, we often get noncreative leaders, people most interested in preserving their own positions. They flock around centers of power. Such… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men...… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers - One: When they find a leader. This… — 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
