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

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

Reliability, Action, Agree

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

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

Power, Political, Doe

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.

Teacher, Children, Educational

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

Government, Long, Tendencies

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

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

Technology, Tools, Faces

"The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction". Book edited by Tim O'Reilly, "Conversations in Port Townsend," (1983), 1987.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

Thinking, Perfect, You Think You Know

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.203, Penguin

Every civilization depends on 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.

Greatness, Civilization, Quality

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.283, Penguin

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

Truth, Self, Matter

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

A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

Sleep, New Experiences, Needs

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

Purpose, Argument, Thrive

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

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

Way, Problem, Problem Solving

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.251, Penguin

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.

Persistence, Simple, Thinking

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

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

Wise, Men, Tools

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

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Wisdom, Suffering, Analysis

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

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Kindness, Cynicism, Cruelty

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

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

Focus, Awareness, Force

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.181, Penguin

The universe does not work by our rules

Doe, Universe

Frank Herbert (1983). “Destination Void”, Berkley

Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

Self, Use, Sticks

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

Wall, Wind, One Day

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

Each life creates endless ripples.

Life, Endless, Ripple

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.72, Penguin

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Faces, Face Your Fears, Climbs

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

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

Errors, Assumption, Obsolete

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

The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.

Evil, Tests, Ultimate

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

Stupidity, Conformity, Remember

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

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

Religious, Honesty, Successful

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

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