Quotes from Frank Herbert

What can I do? The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist.

Nevoia persistent? de univers logic È™i coerent este profund ancorat? în inconÈ™tientul uman. Dar universul real se afl? întotdeauna cu un pas în faÈ›a logicii.

Holding pens. You sell sandtrout and worms off-planet." "It was Muad'Dib's suggestion!" "I know. But none of your worms or sandtrout survive for long away from Dune." "Not yet," Muriz said. "But someday . . ." "Not in ten thousand years," Leto said.

For now my grief is heavier than the sands of the seas... This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

They're Duncan's words and Duncan was speaking as a mentat. 'In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness.

For what would you use such a place, Paul Atreides?" "To make this planet a fit place for humans," Paul said. Perhaps that's why I help them, Kynes thought.

there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace

The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all moral decency in susceptible types. Warfare of these kinds will dump the destroyed survivors back into an innocent population that is incapable of even imagining what such returned soldiers might do.

You're just tired, Father." "I am tired," the Duke agreed. "I'm morally tired. The melancholy degeneration of the Great Houses has afflicted me at last, perhaps. And we were such strong people once.

Laws convey the myth of enforced change. A bright new future will come because of this law or that one. Laws enforce the future.

Religion and law among our masses must be one and the same," his father said. "An act of disobedience must be a sin and require religious penalties. This will have the dual benefit of bringing both greater obedience and greater bravery.

Duboko u ljudskoj podsvijesti postoji nezasitna potreba za logi?no osmišljenim svijetom. Ali pravi svijet je uvijek jedan korak s druge strane logike.

los demagogos son fáciles de identificar. Hacen un montón de gestos y hablan con ritmos de púlpito utilizando palabras que resuenan a fervor religiosos y a sinceridad temerosa de Dios.

His left hand felt the sphincter

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate

Tleilaxu eyes were not immune to tears.

Un líder es una de las cosas que diferencia a una turba de un pueblo. Es alguien que mantiene la individualidad. Cuando hay poca individualidad, el pueblo se convierte en una turba.

He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob." His

She said a thing.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Legile cer întotdeauna s? fie interpretate. Cel care se priponeÈ™te de lege nu vrea s? lase nicio È™ans? compasiunii. Nicio marj? de manevr?. "Legea e lege!

To compete is to prepare for failure. Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

He nodded. "Yes. They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.' Yes…that's what they'll call me." And he closed his eyes, thinking: Now, my father, I can mourn you. And he felt the tears coursing down his cheeks.