Fate Quote by Frank Herbert Download Open image “To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.” — Frank Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fate Inevitable Inevitable fate Power Siege Under siege
“Despite these warnings, the Great powers’ arsenals were brimful; their ranks, swollen. In this light, to suggest they groped or sleepwalked blindly into a… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.” — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
“Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“One has to bear in mind that one of the tactics of revolution is to destroy one's predecessors in authority at any cost or… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. People enter a permanent state of alertness to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and ‘betrays’ its promises. It is lost… — John Holloway 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
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
When you have counted eighty years and more, Time and Fate will batter at your door; But if you should survive to be a… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
Real chessplayers think about chess more or less 24 hours a day. It is a passion and a fate that one has to live… — Simen Agdestein Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves… — Jennifer Elisabeth Copy Share Image
