Frank Herbert Quotes
- It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.
- Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must…
- Grief is the price of victory.
- All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of…
- When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
- Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.
- A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!
- I cry for those not yet dead.
- The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
- Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
- The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences
- War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
- If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
- When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let…
- All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
- Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
- Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
- Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact…
- The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these…
- If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.