Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 14

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• Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

  Frank Herbert

  Dying, Way, Violence

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.366, Penguin

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• What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Thinking, Numbers

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.311, Penguin

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• Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

  Frank Herbert

  Religion, Progress, Statistics

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Useless, Vote

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.146, Penguin

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• To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

  Frank Herbert

  Fate, Power, Siege

  "Dune Messiah". Book by Frank Herbert, 1969.

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• When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

  Frank Herbert

  Mistake, Self, Defense

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.

  Frank Herbert

  Cells, Principles, Conflict

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.157, Penguin

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• There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

  Frank Herbert

  Done, Answers, Problem

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.199, Penguin

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• the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

  Frank Herbert

  Ignorance, Brutality, Culture

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

  Frank Herbert

  Progress, Shields, Utopia

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

  Frank Herbert

  Powerful, Government, Judging

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.180, Penguin

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• It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.

  Frank Herbert

  Sweet, Sweetest

  FRANK HERBERT (1969). “DUNE MESSIAH”

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• A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.

  Frank Herbert

  Taken, Voice, Giving

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• One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Book, Example

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• The successful writer listens to himself.

  Frank Herbert

  Successful

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• We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Humans

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

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• Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.

  Frank Herbert

  Princess, Men, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.421, Penguin

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• I cry for those not yet dead.

  Frank Herbert

  Compassion, Cry

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• Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Art, Hands, Killing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.267, Penguin

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• My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Thinking, Profound

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.185, Penguin

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• The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Past, Endure

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.121, Penguin

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• The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

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  Ecosystems, Niche, Realizing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.427, Penguin

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• The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

  Frank Herbert

  Ideas, Ordinary, Want

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.19, Penguin

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• The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

  Frank Herbert

  Used, Ambiguity, Carrie

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.120, Penguin

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• What is the son but an extension of the father?

  Frank Herbert

  Father, Son, Extensions

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.43, Penguin

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