Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.'… — 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
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind. — 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
Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth… — 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
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