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| 952bdc1 | It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule," Idaho said. "Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace." | Frank Herbert | ||
| f071aca | All rebellions are ordinary and an ultimate bore. They are copied out of the same pattern, one much like another. The driving force is adrenalin addiction and the desire to gain personal power. All rebels are closet aristocrats. That's why I can convert them so easily. Why | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5967582 | Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class--whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. --POLITICS AS REPEAT PHENOMENON: BENE GESSERIT TRAINING MANUAL | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6b8c091 | Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? --Bene | Frank Herbert | ||
| 984231a | As you well know, the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible. | Frank Herbert | ||
| d3b3031 | short-term expediency always fails in the long term. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 44e46ce | You understand? One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4a6864c | He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 191c59a | The thing about computers--it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5a6efc5 | If some crazy bastard tossed you into a lake when you couldn't swim, and you learned to swim like that"--Bickel snapped his fingers--"and you found then you could just keep on going, wouldn't you swim like hell to get away from the crazy bastard?" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 19f801b | Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| 604a31c | The omnipresent enemy was the --that total absence of the things to support life that emptiness called space. It was evil and they feared it--constantly. A rod and staff might comfort in the presence of space, but what you dreamed about was washed air and a womblike enclosed cell where you could divest yourself of the damnable suit. This was the true source of comfort no matter if it came from the Devil himself. | Frank Herbert | ||
| cde63bd | You can't stop a mental epidemic. It leaps from person to person across parsecs. It's overwhelmingly contagious. It strikes at the unprotected side, in the place where we lodge the fragments of other such plagues. Who can stop such a thing? Muad'dib hasn't the antidote. The thing has roots in chaos. Can orders reach there? | Frank Herbert | ||
| b731c31 | When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path. | Frank Herbert | ||
| f211a43 | I remember friends from wars all but we forgot. All of them distilled into each wound we caught. Those wounds are all painful places where we fought. Battles never left behind, ones we never sought. | war | Frank Herbert | |
| 0ca6bf6 | There's coffee for those who want it,' the Duke said. | dune | Frank Herbert | |
| 7805bbb | All around the Lady Jessica--piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces--stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases--some partly unpacked. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 401f0ae | It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 70995c4 | We don't need any more Atreides gods! We need a space for some humanity! | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6b97292 | For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson. -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| d7d2eee | Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe - a man to be trusted because the captain's vices were known. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ef25979 | Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself? Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter. Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh? Baron: Have you been chewing verite or semuta, Piter? | Frank Herbert | ||
| c80f3f8 | 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." --" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 54a8ff1 | I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah? | morality religion | Frank Herbert | |
| 7d7422b | You, Priest in your mufti, you are a chaplain to the self-satisfied. I come not to challenge Muad'Dib but to challenge you! Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation? Answer me, Priest! | priesthood religion satisfaction | Frank Herbert | |
| 8f9de7d | Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself. (Brian Herbert's Introduction) | Frank Herbert | ||
| 9dd1701 | Only those who recognize the value of war and exercise it have any degree of self-determination. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ea90c0e | From Hellstrom's Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter. This fixed the colony as the unit of natural selection and removed all previous limits on the amount of specialization (expressed as caste differences) that a colony could tolerate. It is clear that if we vertebrates can take the same route, our individual members with their vastly larger.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| e0d9014 | He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 05bada6 | we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3ffc808 | Grabezljivac poboljsava vrstu. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4e0bb60 | U usporedbi s beskonacnoscu, sve sto se naziva dugorocnim zapravo je kratkorocno. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 38b2d8a | But that's the function I expect of you, cousin. It's why I chose you. I'll make it official. I will give you a new name. From this moment, you'll be called Breaking of the Habit, which in our tongue is Harq al-Ada. Come, cousin, don't be obtuse. My mother taught you well. Give me your Sardaukar. | Frank Herbert | ||
| bff56a1 | It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings... | Frank Herbert | ||
| 03af265 | 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. Even | Frank Herbert | ||
| f88e6f1 | learned rapidly because his first training was in how to leam. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 830e7aa | Failure to make a decision was in itself a decision--he | Frank Herbert | ||
| 256c9f2 | He's awake and listening to us," said the old woman. "Sly little rascal." She chuckled. "But royalty has need of slyness. And if he's really the Kwisatz Haderach...well...." | Frank Herbert | ||
| f176ef9 | Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ac4655d | People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. We can't have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable? | Frank Herbert | ||
| 045970e | The one-eyed view of our universe says 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. -- The Azhar Book; Shamra I:4 | Frank Herbert | ||
| 30aa470 | Fate was sometimes inscrutable. | Frank Herbert | ||
| cef744a | we are so money-rich and so life-poor. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6c57e7f | Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed." | Frank Herbert |