Frank Herbert Quotes

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• The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

  Frank Herbert

  Hysteria, Undeserving, Promoting

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.306, Penguin

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• We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, People, Reason

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.19, Macmillan

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• Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

  Frank Herbert

  Precision, Repeats, Monotonous

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.160, Penguin

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• Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Class, Aristocracy

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.198, Penguin

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• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Government, Personality

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.60, Penguin

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• When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

  Frank Herbert

  Stronger, Principles, Your Freedom

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.174, Penguin

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• The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

  Frank Herbert

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.35, Penguin

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• The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Taken, Thinking

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• Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Belief, Failing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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• 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.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Heretics Of Dune: The Fifth Dune Novel”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

  Frank Herbert

  Belief, Dangerous, Knowledge Is Dangerous

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.26, Penguin

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• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Power Corrupts, Magnet

  "Chapterhouse: Dune".

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• The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

  Frank Herbert

  Humanity, Contribution, Oneself

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• It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

  Frank Herbert

  Happiness, Past, Waste

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• The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

  Frank Herbert

  Important, Problem

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• When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Principles, Rebel

  Frank Herbert (1983). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

  Frank Herbert

  Freedom, Discipline, History

  Frank Herbert (1985). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.

  Frank Herbert

  Ideas, Dimes, Dozen

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• Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Law, Personal Qualities

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.156, Penguin

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• Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Past, Return

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.351, Penguin

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• If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

  Frank Herbert

  Want, Immortality, Deny

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.377, Penguin

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• When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

  Frank Herbert

  People, Gathering, Cliffs

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• If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Belief, Share

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• There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

  Frank Herbert

  Hard Times, Psychics, People

  "Dune".

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• Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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