Quotes from Frank Herbert

All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats.

Quite naturally, holders of power wish to suppress wild research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing unwanted competition. The powerful want a "safe line of investigations," which will develop only those products and ideas that can be controlled and, most important, that will allow the larger part of the benefits to be captured by inside investors.

They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.

IF.' 'If you had only . . . If we had but. . .' He wanted to shout them into silence. 'Only fools prefer the past!

Soltanto i progressisti pensano davvero. Soltanto i progressisti sono intellettuali. Soltanto i progressisti capiscono i bisogni dei loro simili. Quanta cattiveria si annidava in quella parola!, pensò Odrade. Quanto ego segreto che esigeva di sentirsi superiore.

the universe is created by the participation of consciousness

Business makes progress! Fortune passes everywhere!

the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!

Jessica stopped beside him, said: "What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that." "Yes." "Where do we lose it?" he murmured.

A crede c? È™tii ceva era calea cea mai sigur? de a te orbi singur. Nu înaintarea în vârst? era cea care frâna încetul cu încetul capacitatea de a înv??a (...), ci acumularea de "lucruri pe care le È™tiu".

A visão monocular do nosso universo diz que você não deve buscar muito longe os seus problemas. Esses problemas talvez nunca cheguem. Em vez disso, cuido do lobo que está dentro do seu território. As alcateias que vagam lá fora talvez nem sequer existam.

Desire brings the participants together. Data set the limits of their dialogue. Doubt frames the questions.

That's what he means by give up the initiative. He wants to crush them, suppress them, control them, prevent them. He is living proof that there is little difference between the police mind and the military mind.

I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive," Kynes said.

If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.

I swear this to you by the love I hold for you, a love I will still hold even after I leave you dead on this floor.

Korku katilidir akl?n. Korku, mutlak y?k?m getiren küçük ölümdür.

Cuando una criatura se ha desarrollado de un modo determinado, elegirá morir antes que cambiar a su opuesto.

The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy.

He is living proof that there is little difference between the police mind and the military mind. I told him, "Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

En derinlerdeki dürtülerimizi gizlemeye çal??t???m?z zaman tüm varl???m?z ihaneti hayk?r?r.

Halleck was a continual amazement—a head full of songs, quotations, and flowery phrases…and the heart of an assassin when it came to dealing with the Harkonnens.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

was as though he rode within the wave of time, sometimes in its trough, sometimes on a crest—and all around him the other waves lifted and fell, revealing and then hiding what they bore on their surface.