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Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 6

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If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

Believe, Differences, Done

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

Teaching, Past, History

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.10, Penguin

The dice cannot read their own spots.

Perception, Dice, Spots

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.166, Penguin

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

Jobs, Police, Kind

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

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

Fear, Fantasy Novels, Scary

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.203, Penguin

Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

Revelations, Barriers, Ultimate

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.207, Penguin

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

Government, Destruction, Seeds

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.

Self, Desire, Quality

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

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Hate, Princess, Hatred

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.204, Penguin

The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

Safe, Path, Clear

Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

Thinking, Way, Blind

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.

Believe, Order, Filters

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

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

Player, Games, Missing

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

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.

Past, Self, Atrocities Committed

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

Hope clouds observation.

Hope, Ambition, Clouds

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.17, Penguin

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.

People, Water, World

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

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

Whirlwind, Religion And Politics, Carts

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.

Ambition, Reality

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.97, Penguin

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

Misery, Force, Humans

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.89, Penguin

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

Lying, Path, Danger

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.69, Penguin

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

Nature, Understanding, Environment

"Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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.

Encounters, Logic, Blame

"Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

Missing, Police, Criminals

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

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

Precision, Repeats, Monotonous

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.160, Penguin

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.

Children, Father, Believe

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

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