Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale…

“He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.”

— Frank Herbert

“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

“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

“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

The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.

— Frank Herbert

“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.”

— Frank Herbert

“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

“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?”

— Frank Herbert

“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

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

— Frank Herbert

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

“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

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

— Frank Herbert

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

— Frank Herbert

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

— Frank Herbert