Frank Herbert

Enemies strengthn you. Allies weaken you.

— Frank Herbert

Humans are almost always lonely.

— Frank Herbert

To determine if you're human. Be silent.

— Frank Herbert

“Are you a believer or just playing safe?”

— Frank Herbert

“Only fools prefer the past!”

— Frank Herbert

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

— Frank Herbert

Journalism is the entertainment business.

— Frank Herbert

“you can’t buy security”

— Frank Herbert

Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.

— Frank Herbert

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

— Frank Herbert

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

— Frank Herbert

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

— Frank Herbert

“How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.”

— Frank Herbert

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

— Frank Herbert

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

— Frank Herbert

“More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.”

— Frank Herbert

“Insanity is something like drowning,’ said Sparrow. ‘You go under; you flounder without direction;”

— Frank Herbert

“Leadership and our dependence on it (how and why we choose particular leaders) is a much misunderstood historical phenomenon.”

— Frank Herbert

“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

— Frank Herbert

The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

— Frank Herbert

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

— Frank Herbert

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

— Frank Herbert

“Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.”

— Frank Herbert

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe…

— Frank Herbert

Jessica stopped beside him: ‘What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.’ He spoke mechanically: ‘If only adults could relax like…

— Frank Herbert

“He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage.…

— Frank Herbert

“He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a…

— Frank Herbert

“You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light…

— Frank Herbert

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' -…

— Frank Herbert

“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every…

— Frank Herbert

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain…

— Frank Herbert

“If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our…

— Frank Herbert

“Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert’s first sequel to Dune, was published in 1969. In that book, he flipped over what he called the…

— Frank Herbert

“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

“Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social…

— Frank Herbert

“My family sat in their pool courtyard," Harah said, "in air bathed by the moisture that arose from the spray of a…

— Frank Herbert

“Men, finding no answers to the sunnan [ten thousand religious questions from the Shari-ah] now apply their own reasoning. All men seek…

— Frank Herbert

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no…

— Frank Herbert

“We shouldn’t have tried to create new symbols,” he said. We should’ve realized we weren’t supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief,…

— Frank Herbert

“We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers - One: When they find a leader. This…

— Frank Herbert