There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the " proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. — 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
“Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“if I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. — 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
Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look… — 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
“It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath” — 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 man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there… — 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
“He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't… — 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
