If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government? — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“They were buffoons with barricaded eyes, their shoulders held in positions of immovable defense. Each position upon the great floor could be… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. — 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
Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims… — 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
