Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter… — 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
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men...… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. — 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
