Quotes from Frank Herbert

Forgive you?" Leto's voice was full of sweet reason. "Of course I forgive you. That is your God's function. Your crime is forgiven. However, your stupidity requires a response.

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity." Odrade explaining. "The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.

They learned early that sharing secret or private names was an ancient device for ensnaring a person in affections.

That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.

We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Is consciousness merely a special form of hallucination?

What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground—and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy.

Grabežljivac poboljšava vrstu.

U usporedbi s beskona?noš?u, sve što se naziva dugoro?nim zapravo je kratkoro?no.

Holiness has replaced love in your religion!

You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.

Often, I must speak otherwise than I think. That is called diplomacy.

All of them, she thought, an entire culture trained to military order. What a priceless thing is here for an outcast Duke!

THE DUKE Leto Atreides leaned against a parapet of the landing control tower outside Arrakeen. The night's first moon, an oblate silver coin, hung well above the southern horizon. Beneath it, the jagged cliffs of the Shield Wall shone like parched icing through a dust haze. To his left, the lights of Arrakeen glowed in the haze—yellow . . . white . . . blue.

The Fremen! They're paying the Guild for privacy, paying in a coin that's freely available to anyone with desert power—spice.

The natural human´s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.

Expect only what happens in the fight. That way you'll never be surprised.

The tribal commander must lose no face among those who should obey him. Paul

Sloboda može bit vrlo samotno stanje.

Anyone can be a Truthsayer, even you," The Preacher said. "It's a matter of self-honesty about the nature of your own feelings. It requires that you have an inner agreement with truth which allows ready recognition.