Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 10

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• When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

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  Differences, Training, Stranger

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.130, Penguin

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• We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.

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  Power, Wealth, Mask

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.151, Penguin

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• The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

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  Over It, Absolutes

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.410, Penguin

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• Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

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  Law, Competition, Growth

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• To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

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  Heart, Soul, Desire

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• Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

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  Mountain, Littles, Tests

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.67, Penguin

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• Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

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  Cities, Desert, Polish

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.269, Macmillan

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• Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

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  Adventure, Population, Doe

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.221, Macmillan

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• The past is no farther away than your pillow.

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  Past, Pillow

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.20, Penguin

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• You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

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  People, Gentleman, Awakening

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.389, Penguin

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• That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.

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  Law, Quality, Purpose

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

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  Art, Perfection, Form

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.86, Penguin

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• To determine if you're human. Be silent.

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  Silent, Determine, Humans

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.16, Penguin

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• A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

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  Wrath, Stones, Fool

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.225, Penguin

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• History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

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  Race, History, Invention

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.352, Penguin

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• Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

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  Self, Attention, Demand

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.159, Penguin

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• Men always fear things which move by themselves.

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  Moving, Men

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.107, Penguin

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• Humans are almost always lonely.

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  Lonely, Humanity, Humans

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.29, Penguin

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• Fear is the mind-killer.

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  Fear, Mind, Killers

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

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• Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

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  Feelings, Guilt, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.288, Hachette UK

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• The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

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  Eye, Saws, Matter

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.51, Penguin

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• The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

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  Law, Violence, Grew Up

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.148, Penguin

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• Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

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  Sadness, Parting

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.33, Penguin

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• Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

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  Fall, Power, Reality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.85, Penguin

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• You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

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  Thinking, Judgement, Risk

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.213, Penguin

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