Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Yes, but I’ve also walked about in your city and I’ve watched your people. Your people are aggressive!” “You see, Duncan? Peace… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you… — 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
“Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. — 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
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Our civilization appears to’ve fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. People enter a permanent state of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“They displayed a sophistication in warfare as good as anything he had ever encountered, and he had been trained by the best… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. — 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
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you. — 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
