Quotes from Frank Herbert

Umut gözlemi buland?r?r.

It's my storm, Paul said [...] Though it shook the entire world it could not be more than I wished.

sift people to find the humans.

Knowledge of mistakes taught him long-term corrections. He had to be constantly aware of consequences. If consequences were lost or concealed, lessons were lost.

Woman is thy field; go then to thy field and till it.

Never follow a leader without asking your own questions.

Bureaucracy elevates conformity, make that 'elevates fatal stupidity', to the status of religion.

To the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm of "real materials"—to the dry-land ecologists, wherever they may be, in whatever time they work, this effort at prediction is dedicated in humility and admiration.

Only the puppet masters were important. How the puppets moved—that told you what the puppet masters were doing.

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

The best art imitates life in a compelling way. If it imitates a dream, it must be a dream of life. Otherwise, there is no place where we can connect. Our plugs don't fit.

Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.

I'll sheath my knife in your blood," Jamis snarled. And in the middle of the last word he pounced.

La memoria non ricattura mai la realtà. La memoria ricostruisce. Tutte le ricostruzioni cambiano l'originale, diventando quadri di riferimento esterni che inevitabilmente si discostano dal vero.

Most educated people know that the worst potential competition for any young organism can come from its own kind... They are eating from the same bowl. They have the same basic requirements

a man must permit his deeds and his words to agree. When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those con sequences and not by your explanations.

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know.

If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Nothing about religion is simple," she warned.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented.

the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

Hawat tried to swallow in a dry throat. Her command had been regal, peremptory—uttered in a tone and manner he had found completely irresistible. His body had obeyed her before he could think about it. Nothing could have prevented his response—not logic, not passionate anger…nothing. To do what she had done spoke of a sensitive, intimate knowledge of the person thus commanded, a depth of control he had not dreamed possible.

Looking back on it, I realize I did the right thing instinctively. You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Bons súditos devem sentir culpa. A culpa começa como uma sensação de fracasso. O bom autocrata fornece muitas oportunidades de fracasso para o seu povo.