Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 6

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• A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

  Frank Herbert

  Coffee, Moving, Men

  "Dune (40th Anniversary Edition)". Book by Frank Herbert, Penguin, p. 30, August 2, 2005.

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• Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Law, Enforcement

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.137, Penguin

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• When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

  Frank Herbert

  Betrayal, Trying, Scream

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.34, Penguin

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• Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

  Frank Herbert

  Funny, Confused, Animal

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• And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

  Frank Herbert

  Temptation, Warning, Safe

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.194, Penguin

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• Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

  Frank Herbert

  Jobs, Police, Kind

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

  Frank Herbert

  Exercise, Past, Fit

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• Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

  Frank Herbert

  Doors, Long, Violence

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.310, Penguin

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• If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

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  Believe, Order, Filters

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.119, Penguin

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• We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

  Frank Herbert

  Enemy, Worst

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.28, Penguin

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• Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Destruction, Seeds

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• Caution is the path to mediocrity.

  Frank Herbert

  Mediocrity, Path, Caution

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

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• The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

  Frank Herbert

  Deception, Illusion

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.236, Penguin

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• You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Too Much, Chaos

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.155, Penguin

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• Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these 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.

  Frank Herbert

  Encounters, Logic, Blame

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Self, Atrocities Committed

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

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• Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

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  Water, Swim, Survival

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.272, Penguin

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• Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

  Frank Herbert

  Player, Games, Missing

  Frank Herbert (2011). “Chapter House Dune: The Sixth Dune Novel”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

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  Opportunity, Feelings, Guilt

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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• The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

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  Children, Father, Believe

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.390, Penguin

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• The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

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  Self, Desire, Quality

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.253, Penguin

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• Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

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  Thinking, World, May

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.42, Penguin

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• Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Water, World

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.114, Penguin

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• I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspiration, Worry, Sitting Down

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

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• The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

  Frank Herbert

  Safe, Path, Clear

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