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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 953799c | A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ab139ed | This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation. | Frank Herbert | ||
| fbb4e55 | Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger. | Frank Herbert | ||
| d2da2bf | At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 595c628 | Any path which narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap. Humans are not threading their way through a maze; they scan a vast horizon filled with unique opportunities. | Frank Herbert | ||
| fb25f52 | Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 85b5d44 | It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 532449b | We are the people of Misr," the old woman rasped. "Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3ba8f63 | The universe is full of doors, | Frank Herbert | ||
| cf415d2 | Paul shrugged. "Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world's language, that it's different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn't speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn't it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don't hear just with your ears. And I said that's what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life." Hawat chuckled. "How'd that sit with her?" "I think she go.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 25119ac | I see the signs!" Jessica snapped. "My question was meant to remind you that you should not try to teach me those matters in which I instructed you." Paul" | Frank Herbert | ||
| d81afde | She used these moments as she used all such time now to gird herself for the coming necessities. Time pressed; a special calendar drove her. She had looked at a calendar before leaving Chapter House, caught as often happened to her by the persistence of time and its language: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years. . . Standard Years, to be precise. Persistence was an inadequate word for the phenomenon. Inviolability was more l.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 1db3bbc | Once . . . long ago, he'd thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him. | Frank Herbert | ||
| c5dad60 | How do we approach the study of Muad'Dib's father? A man of surpassing warmth and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Bene Gesserit lady; the dreams he held for his son; the devotion with which men served him. You see him there--a man snared by Destiny, a lonely figure with his light dimmed behind the glory of his son. Still, one must ask: What is the son but an.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| fefa4a7 | What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent -- he solves. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 40b65dc | What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can," Edric said." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5d4c3dd | To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence." Stepping" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5b56f17 | Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b78853a | To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 00332e4 | One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5ee0540 | I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea...and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8e73c0a | For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 708a1dc | Natural selection has been described as an environment selectively screening for those who will have progeny. Where humans are concerned, though, this is an extremely limiting viewpoint. Reproduction by sex tends toward experiment and innovation. It raises many questions, including the ancient one about whether environment is a selective agent after the variation occurs, or whether environment plays a pre-selective role in determining the v.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 90bb5e7 | My mind controls my reality. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 366da71 | You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. | discipleship ministry thought-life | Frank Herbert | |
| 8a57fe9 | My father rules an entire planet." "He's losing it." | power | Frank Herbert | |
| e3ae6a1 | In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched. | government tyranny | Frank Herbert | |
| 0a31395 | The mind can go either direction under stress--toward positive or toward negative: | Frank Herbert | ||
| 7dc3dd5 | To stay awake all night adds a day to your life. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4ed4ab8 | We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 1efb01d | It'd be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 63d9304 | Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny." | Frank Herbert | ||
| b047bf2 | Culture! They dispense culture the better to rule. Beauty! They promote the beauty which enslaves. They create a literate ignorance--easiest thing of all. They leave nothing to chance. Chains! Everything they do forges chains, enslaves. But slaves always revolt. | Frank Herbert | ||
| a262e2a | How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0477ed2 | The pitfall of Bene Gesserit training, she reminded herself, lay in the powers granted: such powers predisposed one to vanity and pride. But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier ... including one's own ignorance. | Frank Herbert | ||
| d8645cf | That is the beginning of knowledge--the discovery of something we do not understand." Before" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 9d01f47 | The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture--it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 81a4a71 | The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| cd325d5 | You do not take from this universe, he thought. It grants what it will. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 9717cec | I began with love and prayer," Moneo said. "I changed to anger and rebellion. I was transformed into what you see before you. I recognize my duty and I do it." | Frank Herbert | ||
| c74acc0 | You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely. | Frank Herbert | ||
| d2ca932 | Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her" | Frank Herbert | ||
| ef405e8 | You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. This power struggle permeates the training, educating and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably must face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic. -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| 9afad80 | How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history. | Frank Herbert |