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
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us? — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance… — 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
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do… — 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
