Quotes from Frank Herbert

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

They were a magnet in the void; evil and all the sad misuses of power collected around them.

Power attracts the psychotics. Always.

Death is a very personal thing. I will seldom interfere with it.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis [...] You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

Better a dry morsel and quietness than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

Pois, por ora, a dor da perda é mais pesada que as areias ou os mares, ela pensou. Este mundo me privou de tudo, exceto do propósito mais antigo de todos: a vida de amanhã.

The expectations which history creates for one generation are often shattered in the next generation.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. The uncertain rabbits had to be exposed, made to run for their burrows. Else how could you control them and breed them?

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments.

La gente altera costruisce soltanto le mura esterne del castello, dietro alle quali cerca di nascondere i suoi dubbi e le sue paure.

A universe of surprises is what I pray for

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas

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.

I'm at the fulcrum

Religia trebuie s? r?mân? o supap? pentru acei oameni care îÈ™i spun: "Nu sunt aÈ™a cum aÈ™ vrea s? fiu." În niciun caz, ea nu trebuie s? se afunde în marasmul mulÈ›umirii de sine.

The man without emotions is the one to fear. But deep emotions…ah, now, those can be bent to your needs.

Con el punto de apoyo adecuado es posible hasta mover el mundo

I am surrounded by such useless clods. If I scattered sand before this creature and told him it was grain, he'd peck at it.

What do you mean—desire, data and doubt?" "Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

We are getting no messages," the signalman beside Paul said. "Much static.

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