“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“When Children of Dune came out in hardback in 1976, it was an instant best seller. True to the prediction of David… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — 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
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
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are… — 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
