It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. — 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
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they’d bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn’t it? And it puts a new shape on… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,” Leto explained. “To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending… — 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
