Quotes from Frank Herbert

Crystal teeth flashed in the dim light. He saw the yawning mouth-cavern with, far back, the ambient movement of dim flame. The overpowering redolence of the spice swept over him. But the worm had stopped. It remained in front of him as First Moon lifted over the butte. The light reflected off the worm's teeth outlining the faery glow of chemical fires deep within the creature.

But the prophetic instant releases something of infinite portent and power. The universe undergoes a ghostly shift. Thus, the wise prophet conceals actuality behind shimmering labels. The uninitiated then believe the prophetic language is ambiguous. The listener distrusts the prophetic messenger. Instinct tells you how the utterance blunts the power of such words. The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Something cannot emerge from nothing

O bun? guvernare nu depinde niciodat? de legi, ci de calit??ile personale ale celor care guverneaz?. MaÈ™in?ria guvernamental? este întotdeauna subordonat? voinÈ›ei celor care-o administreaz?. De aceea, cel mai important element al artei guvern?rii este metoda de alegere a conduc?torului.

And he wondered: What is the now?

In the silence that followed, they heard Kynes. 'Bless the Maker and His water,' Kynes murmured. 'Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

A ruler need not be a prophet, Stil. Nor even godlike. A ruler need only be sensitive. I brought you here with me to clarify what our Imperium requires. It requires good government. That does not depend upon laws or precedent, but upon the personal qualities of whoever governs.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity....The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

Professional legalists were absolutely prohibited from Gowachin judicial service. Let the people judge.

Data," Paul said. "I need more data.

What was it St. Augustine said? she asked herself. "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately.

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Solo estaré yo.

Aceasta e aberaÈ›ia puterii: în ultim? instan?? este eficace numai într-un Univers absolut, limitat. Dar lecÈ›ia de c?p?tâi a Universului nostru relativist este c? lucrurile se schimb?. Orice putere trebuie s? înfrunte întotdeauna o putere mai mare.

Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: "I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough.

Åžunu haf?zana kaz? evlat: Dünya dört ÅŸeyin üzerinde durur... Ä°ri eklemli dört parma??n? kald?rm??t?. Bilgelerin ilmi, yücelerin adaleti, hakl?lar?n duas? ve yiÄŸitlerin cesareti. Ama hükmetme sanat?n? bilen bir hükümdar olmadan... Parmaklar?n? indirip yumruÄŸunu s?km??t?. Bunlar hiçbir iÅŸe yaramaz.

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." He

Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem," Kynes said, "is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses.

Observe the plans within plans within plans

And now we control it?" "To a certain degree. But the important thing is to consider all the Houses that depend on CHOAM profits. And think of the enormous proportion of those profits dependent upon a single product—the spice. Imagine what would happen if something should reduce spice production." "Whoever had stockpiled melange could make a killing," Paul said. "Others would be out in the cold.

Recherchez la liberté et devenez esclave de vos désirs. Recherchez la discipline et trouvez votre liberté.

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. And, naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. —Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)