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• Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

  Frank Herbert

  Reliability, Action, Agree

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.110, Penguin

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• Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Teaching, Law

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.330, Penguin

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• Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Candid, Concealing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.142, Penguin

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• Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Fictional character: Duke Leto Atreides". "Dune", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Ifs

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.364, Penguin

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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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• To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Adversity, Sacred, Moments

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.285, Macmillan

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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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• The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Trust, People

  "The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert". "Mother Earth News", No. 69, May/ June 1981.

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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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• Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

  Frank Herbert

  Hate, Thought Provoking, Innovation

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.201, Penguin

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• Education is no substitute for intelligence.

  Frank Herbert

  Substitutes

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.90, Penguin

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• The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

  Frank Herbert

  Science, Fiction, Sometimes

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• Truth suffers from too much analysis.

  Frank Herbert

  Wisdom, Suffering, Analysis

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.68, Penguin

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• I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

  Frank Herbert

  Persistence, Simple, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.139, Penguin

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• If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Mistake, Advice

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• Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Long, Tendencies

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.255, Penguin

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• Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

  Frank Herbert

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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• This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, Tools

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.216, Penguin

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• It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, People, Difficult

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• Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Real, Princess

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

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• Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

  Frank Herbert

  Soul, Might, Firsts

  Frank Herbert (2010). “God Emperor Of Dune: The Fourth Dune Novel”, p.218, Hachette UK

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• Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

  Frank Herbert

  Adventure, Errors, Atheism

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.275, Penguin

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• It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, Doe

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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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