Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead… — 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
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable. — 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
Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image