All Frank Herbert Quotes
- Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. Beginning
- It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. Contented
- Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. All
- Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. Bureaucracy
- Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold… Affair
- I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once. Death
- When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows. Cart
- The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach. Ferocity
- A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a… Distinguishes
- A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful, Arouses
- You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap,… Animal
- He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing. Control
- A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation Antithesis
- The real universe is always one step beyond logic. Always One
- When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to… Ahead
- If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order. Belief
- We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. Any
- There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves. Balance
- Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. All
- Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. From