Quotes from Frank Herbert

Hatred was as dangerous an emotion as love. The capacity for hatred was the capacity for its opposite.

If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

If history had any repetitive patterns, here was one. A drumbeat of repetition. First, a Civil Service law masked in the lie that it was the only way to correct demagogic excesses and spoils systems. Then the accumulation of power in places voters could not touch. And finally, aristocracy.

E la vittoria in quel giorno si cambiò in lutto per tutto il popolo, perché il popolo seppe, in quel giorno, che il re piangeva suo figlio.»

Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world's language, that it's different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn't speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn't it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don't hear just with your ears. And I said that's what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life.

Eram máscaras baratas presas a pensamentos supurados: vozes que lutavam para afogar o silencio clamoroso em cada íntimo

One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can't evade it.

O medo mata a mente. O medo é a pequena morte que leva à aniquilação total.

To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils. If you try to interpret what you see for the blind, you tend to forget that the blind possess an inherent movement conditioned by their blindness. They are like a monstrous machine moving along its own path. They have their own momentum, their own fixations. I fear the blind, Stil. I fear them. They can so easily crush anything in their path.

I give you the desert chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity. The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified.

And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed. But this made the empty place within him no easier to bear.

Quem governa assume uma responsabilidade irrevogável pelos governados. Você é um fazendeiro. Isso exige, em certos momentos, um ato de amor altruísta que talvez pareça apenas divertido para aqueles a quem você governa.

Pentru ceilalÈ›i, putem spune c? Muad'Dib a înv??at repede fiindc? prima sa înv???tur? a fost cum s? înveÈ›e. ?i prima lecÈ›ie a acestei înv???turi era încrederea fundamental? c? putea s? înveÈ›e. Este surprinz?tor cât de mulÈ›i oameni nu cred c? pot s? înveÈ›e È™i mai ales cât de mulÈ›i cred c? ete greu s? înveÈ›e.

The hands move, the lips move- Ideas gush from his words, And his eyes devour! He is an island of Selfdom

Control the coinage and the courts – let the rabble have the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advised you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

Death and deceit are our only hopes now.

Descobrimos o futuro no passado e ambos fazem parte de um todo.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life-we went soft, we lost our edge.

I have been a stranger in a strange land,'" Halleck quoted.

How seductive it is to live in peace, she thought.

Herkes, her ?ey ba?ar?s?z olabilir... ama cesur dostlar yard?m eder.

Desperate people are the most dangerous

Something precious was taken from us and the compensations were inadequate.

Orice drum parcurs pân? la cap?t duce exact nic?ieri. Escaladeaz? muntele doar atât cât s? te convingi c? e munte. Din vârful muntelui nu poÈ›i s? vezi muntele.