Frank Herbert quotes - page 7

Silence is often the best thing to say. (Frank Herbert)
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. View quote
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. View quote
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Reason is the first victim of strong emotion. View quote
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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. View quote
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Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion. View quote
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Journalism is the entertainment business. View quote
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What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical. View quote
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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. View quote
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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. View quote
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Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself. (Frank Herbert)
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. View quote
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Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all. View quote
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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying 'Now, it's compete because it's ended here.' View quote
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Question Who governs the governors Answer Entropy. View quote
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No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machinehuman interface, there always comes interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals. View quote
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A human being can stand any amount of pain. View quote
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Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. View quote
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Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it. View quote
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The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you. View quote
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She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. (Frank Herbert)
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives. View quote
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There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover. View quote
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A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe. View quote
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Humans are almost always lonely. View quote
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