Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 12

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• Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

  Frank Herbert

  Acceptance, Government, Names

  "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 297), 1977.

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• Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Balance, Atrocities

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.110, Penguin

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• All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

  Frank Herbert

  God, Science, Men

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.432, Penguin

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• How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

  Frank Herbert

  Anger, Men, Self

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.366, Penguin

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• Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

  Frank Herbert

  Attitude, Princess, Knives

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Differences, Violence

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.148, Penguin

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• Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

  Frank Herbert

  Trying, Youth, Sprint

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

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• The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

  Frank Herbert

  Ideas, Ordinary, Want

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.19, Penguin

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• It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

  Frank Herbert

  Ignorance, Dangerous

  Frank Herbert (2007). “The White Plague”, p.68, Macmillan

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• For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

  Frank Herbert

  Grief, Sea, Purpose

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.183, Penguin

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• A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

  Frank Herbert

  Rulers

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.34, Penguin

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• A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor - we come for you!

  Frank Herbert

  Fear, Atheism, Storm

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• . . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

  Frank Herbert

  Truth, Light, Knowing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.20, Penguin

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• No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.

  Frank Herbert

  Lonely, Simple, Civilization

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.132, Penguin

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• Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

  Frank Herbert

  Love, Survival, Essentials

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.24, Penguin

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• There's a lesson in every temptation.

  Frank Herbert

  Temptation, Lessons

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.363, Penguin

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• Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

  Frank Herbert

  Science, Being Real, Done

  Frank Herbert (2014). “The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert”, p.149, Macmillan

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• When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.

  Frank Herbert

  Opposites, Creatures, One Thing

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.109, Penguin

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• To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

  Frank Herbert

  Collapse, Knows, Trapped

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.101, Penguin

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• The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

  Frank Herbert

  Bees, Enough

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.159, Penguin

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• It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

  Frank Herbert

  Events, Fool, Form

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.286, Penguin

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• Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

  Frank Herbert

  Predictions, Absolutes, Completion

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

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• 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. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Sleep, Relax

  "Dune".

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• If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

  Frank Herbert

  Space, Nonsense, Should

  "The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction". Book edited by Tim O'Reilly, essay "Man's Future in Space", (1981), 1987.

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• If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

  Frank Herbert

  Eye, Rely, Senses

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.201, Penguin

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