Quotes from Frank Herbert

Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power.

Their destination was Sietch Tabr—Stilgar's sietch. She turned the word over in her mind: sietch. It was a Chakobsa word, unchanged from the old hunting language out of countless centuries. Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger. The profound implications of the word and the language were just beginning to register with her after the tension of their encounter.

Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts. The guilt of rebellion invoked hellfire and self-righteous judgments. Yet it was men who created these governmental edicts.

el precio que pagamos era el precio que los hombres han pagado siempre por obtener un paraíso en sus vidas: nos ablandamos, perdimos nuestro temple. · —De Conversaciones con Muad'Dib, por la princesa Irulan

Every aspect of surrounding events fitted a present which paralyzed him. He felt chained to a future which, exposed too often, had locked onto him like a greedy succubus. Tight dryness clogged his throat. Had he followed the witchcall of his own oracle, he wondered, until it'd spilled him into a merciless present.

Rekli su da sve tvoje slobode nestaju kad pokorno gledaš u nekog apsolutnog vladara.

Minutele de studiu sînt chez??ia succesului. Nu te gr?bi, aÅŸteapt? s? fii sigur.

I am tired," the Duke agreed. "I'm morally tired.

Özgürlük bir yaln?zl?k halidir.

the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.

But this being has human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.

Vjerske ustanove ovjekovje?uju odnos izme?u smrtnog gospodara i smrtnog sluge, re?e Leto.One stvaraju pozornicu koja privla?i ponosne ljude koji žude za mo?i sa svim njihovim kratkovidnim predrasudama!

Bitterness I understand," the Duke said. "But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

Ljudi koji u proro?anstvu traže budu?nost zapravo žele znati kakva ?e biti cijena kitovog krzna idu?e godine ili nešto sli?no banalno. Nitko stvarno ne želi imati život predvidiv u svakom trenutku.

He didn't use the Jihad, the Jihad used him. I think he would have stopped it by now if he could. You can't stop a mental epidemic. It leaps from person to person across parsecs. It's overwhelmingly contagious. It strikes at the unprotected side, in the place where we lodge the fragments of other such plagues. Who can stop such a thing? Muad'dib hasn't the antidote. The thing has roots in chaos. Can orders reach there?

Sex for pleasure, the enemy of religion, eh?

Only once did Idaho speak. "You're not a virgin." "Nor are you, Love." "Love," he whispered. "Love, love, love . . ." "Yes . . . yes!" In

la predicción es una consecuencia natural del oleaje del presente

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences

Svijest onoga koji vjeruje miruje, ne uspijeva se širiti prema van, u neograni?eni, beskrajni svemir.

A finger's touch had been known to topple civilizations.

A wise man depends upon his friends for information and upon himself for decisions