Quotes from Frank Herbert

She was Bene Gesserit long before she was my mother. Duncan, she permitted her own son, my brother, to undergo the test of the gom jabbar! She arranged it! And she knew he might not survive it!

How easy it is to follow our thoughts instead of our senses

All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power

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. —THE AZHAR BOOK; SHAMRA I:4

Thee old woman was a witch shadow--hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded 'round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.

Where Thufir Hawat goes, death and deceit follow." "You malign him." "Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now.

So you know how to make a democracy do whatever you want." A gloating expression. "The technique is quite subtle but easy. You create a system where most people are dissatisfied, vaguely or deeply.

She sleeps in the Waters of Life." Chani

the face was predatory: thin, full of sharp angles and panes.

one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone…animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct…the animal destroys and does not produce…animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual…

Do not give someone a stick with which to beat you.

People fear me. I never wanted to be feared. I don't want to be a part of history, I just want to be loved... and to love.

I give you Muad'Dib's words! He said, 'I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?' That's what Muad'Dib told you!

It was finite, of course, a brief spasm when measured against eternity, but beyond lay horrors to overshadow anything in the past.

Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.

We mustn't run short of filmbase,' the Duke said. 'Else, how could we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?

Pero no nos lamentemos por la falta de justicia mientras tengamos brazos y seamos libres para usarlos.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it," she said. "But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

Se dice que un día vendrá un hombre que, con el don de la droga

His wide mouth was twisted into a pleasant sneer, and the scar of the inkvine whip slashed across his jawline seemed to move with a life of its own.

Dependency infrastructure is a term that includes all things necessary for a human population to survive at existing or increased numbers

It was the Fremen who took off in that captured 'thopter, Hawat thought. He deliberately sacrificed himself to get that carrier. Great Mother! What are these Fremen?

Subtlety and self-control were, after all

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