Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 3

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• Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  Power, Political, Doe

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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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• Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

  Frank Herbert

  Power, Corruption, Power And Corruption

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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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• 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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• Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

  Frank Herbert

  Civilization, Quality, Individual

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.312, Penguin

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• Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, People, Gliding

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.372, Penguin

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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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• Truth suffers from too much analysis.

  Frank Herbert

  Wisdom, Suffering, Analysis

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.68, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

  Frank Herbert

  Errors, Assumption, Obsolete

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.82, Penguin

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• No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

  Frank Herbert

  Truth, Self, Matter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

  Frank Herbert

  Purpose, Argument, Thrive

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

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• I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Opportunity, Justice

  "Dune Genesis" by Frank Herbert , Omni, Vol. 2, No. 2 (p. 72), July 1980.

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• Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

  Frank Herbert

  Stupidity, Conformity, Remember

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

  Frank Herbert

  Faces, Face Your Fears, Climbs

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.151, Penguin

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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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• The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

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  Wall, Wind, One Day

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.31, Penguin

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• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, May

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

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• A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

  Frank Herbert

  Creativity, Men, Creating

  "Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

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

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• Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

  Frank Herbert

  Kindness, Cynicism, Cruelty

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.434, Penguin

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