Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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
“Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement—the real limit of organized society.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who… — 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
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
We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a… — 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
