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Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 16

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Law is the ultimate science.

Law is the ultimate science.

Law, Ultimate

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.198, Penguin

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

Song, Heart, Chords

We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

Philosophy, Structure, Questioning

Frank Herbert (1983). “Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers”

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

Law, Justice, Mistress

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.39, Penguin

What does a mirror look at?

Mirrors, Doe, Looks

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.178, Penguin

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Loyalty, Real, Greatness

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

I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.

Art, Memories, Winter

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.61, Penguin

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

Lying, Fall, Pedestal

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.92, Penguin

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

Children, Needs, About Yourself

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

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced.

Book, Writing, Years

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.8, Penguin

Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.

Loyalty, Son, Loss

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.115, Penguin

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

Black, Remember, Blind

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

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

Government, Needs, Flaws

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.170, Penguin

A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

Rabbits, Killers, Kind

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.282, Penguin

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

Mind, Humans, Human Mind

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

Grief is the price of victory.

Grief, Victory, Aging

Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

Giving, Lamps, Give Me

Frank Herbert (1984). “Dune Messiah”, Berkley

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.331, Hachette UK

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Cutting, Lines, Problem

"Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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

Collapse, Knows, Trapped

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

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

Army, Police, Enemy

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.158, Penguin

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

Crush, Individuality, Balance

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.54, Penguin

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

Giving Up, Moving, Fall

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.103, Penguin

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

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.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Path, Stagnation

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

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