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Quotes from 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.
~ Frank Herbert
We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
~ Frank Herbert
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
~ Frank Herbert
Death makes a prophet's voice louder.
~ Frank Herbert
Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!
~ Frank Herbert
To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned
~ Frank Herbert
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
~ Frank Herbert
Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
~ Frank Herbert
If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.
~ Frank Herbert
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
~ Frank Herbert
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
~ Frank Herbert
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
~ Frank Herbert
Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.
~ Frank Herbert
There is only one true wealth in all the universe...living time.
~ Frank Herbert
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
~ Frank Herbert
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
~ Frank Herbert
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
~ Frank Herbert
Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.
~ Frank Herbert
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
~ Frank Herbert
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
~ Frank Herbert
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
~ Frank Herbert