Quotes from Frank Herbert

Who shall guard the guardians? Who shall see that the guardians commit no offenses?

My son lives, she thought. My son lives and is... human. I knew he was... but... he lives. Now, I can go on living.

Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections.

But it was unlike any other drug of her experience, and Bene Gesserit training included the taste of many drugs.

Oprez je staza osrednjosti. Ljigava, bestrasna osrednjost je sve što ve?ina ljudi vjeruje da im je dostupno.

Among us," he said

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Ne možemo li miroljubivo uskladiti naše razlike, ne možemo biti ljudi.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do.

Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without

Men and their works have been a disease on the surface of their planets before now," his father said. "Nature tends to compensate for diseases, to remove or encapsulate them, to incorporate them into the system in her own way.

She had led him from the command post into a chilly night canopied with stars like stone-edged facets of shattered brilliants.

Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place.

Kynes had said: "…the shortening of the way." In the old tongue, the phrase translated as "Kwisatz Haderach.

I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies.

Se desejos fossem peixes, todos nós lançaríamos as redes.

Cómo es posible que un planeta pueda convertirse en un Edén sin dinero? —¿De qué os sirve el dinero si no os procura los servicios que necesitáis? —preguntó a su vez Kynes.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Yes! See him there, this man who believes he cannot be bought. See him detained there by a million shares of himself sold in dribbles every second of his life! If you took him up now and shook him, he'd rattle inside. Emptied! Sold out! What difference how he dies now?

There is enough water! But Kynes doesn't wish it to be known.

So I had a son! Jessica flared. And she knew she was being goaded into this anger deliberately. You were told to bear only daughters to the Atreides. It meant so much to him, Jessica pleaded.

ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

But he felt nothing except: Here's an important fact. It was one with all the other facts.