Quotes from Frank Herbert

And 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.

They had achieved a way of life which wouldn't be tolerated by the outside. Santaroga offered too much of a threat to the oligarchs of the money-industry world.

Arm yourself when the Frog God smiles. — Gowachin admonition

If wishes were fishes we'd all cast nets," he murmured.

Copilul care refuz? s? mearg? în lesa tat?lui - acesta este simbolul supremei capacit??i a omului. "Nu am a fi ceea ce a fost tat?l meu. Nu am a m? supune regulilor stabilite de tat?l meu sau a crede tot ce-a crezut el. Ca fiin?? uman?, forÈ›a mea const? în aceea c? pot s? aleg singur ce s? cred È™i ce s? nu cred, ce s? fiu È™i ce s? nu fiu.

Leaders make mistakes, and those mistakes amplified by the number of those who follow without questioning, move inevitably toward great disasters.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.  Ã¢â'¬â€Darwi Odrade

Tibana was an apologist for Socratic Christianity, probably a native of IV Anbus who lived between the eighth and ninth centuries before Corrino, likely in the second reign of Dalamak. Of his writings, only a portion survives from which this fragment is taken: "The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

I prefer the cynical view," Paul said, testing. "You obviously are trained in all the lying tricks of statecraft, the double meanings and the power words. Language is nothing more than a weapon to you and, thus, you test my armor." "The cynical view," Edric said, a smile stretching his mouth. "And rulers are notoriously cynical where religions are concerned. Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.

All governments needed to remain under suspicion in their time of power.

The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings and when they make mistakes their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question and that's why I say 'think for yourself', ask questions.

Love needs no guarantees.

To be guilty is to be innocent. Thus, to be innocent is to be guilty.

The Guild navigators, gifted with limited prescience, had made the fatal decision: they'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.

What's a practical god?" Dasein asked. "A practical god? That'a a god who agrees with his worshipers.

Is Moneo your friend, too?" "We are friends of the stomach. We both like yogurt.

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man. There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery.

You can say to yourself, "Yes, I see how such a thing may be." But when you look inward and confront the raw force of your own life unshielded, you see your peril. You see that this could overwhelm you. The greatest peril to the Giver is the force that takes. The greatest peril to the Taker is the force that gives. It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.

The worst products of what I'm describing are almost basket cases—can't make decisions about anything, or leave them until the last possible second and then leap at them like desperate animals.

To accept a little-death is worse than death itself

Of course, the prophecy left certain latitude as to whether the Mother Goddess would bring the Messiah with her or produce Him on the scene. Still, there was this odd correspondence between prediction and persons.

Thou shall not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.