Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 17

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• A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

  Frank Herbert

  Leadership, People, Leader

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.256, Penguin

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• A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

  Frank Herbert

  Creating, Antithesis, Particular

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.24, Penguin

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• Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Army, Police, Enemy

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.158, Penguin

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• But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

  Frank Herbert

  Reading, Writing, Differences

  "Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

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• It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

  Frank Herbert

  Events, Fool, Form

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.286, Penguin

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• The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

  Frank Herbert

  Play, Problem

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.193, Penguin

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• Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

  Frank Herbert

  Evil, Answers, Might

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.114, Penguin

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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.

  Frank Herbert

  Schemes, Humans, Persons

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.138, Penguin

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• Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Sleep, Relax

  "Dune".

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• Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

  Frank Herbert

  Voice, Prophet

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.314, Penguin

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• The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

  Frank Herbert

  Order, Mind, Body

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.52, Penguin

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• There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Cells, Giving

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Events, Tasks

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.432, Penguin

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• If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

  Frank Herbert

  Limits, Firsts, Exploration

  "Doll Factory, Gun Factory" in "he Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction" edited by Tim O'Reilly, 1987.

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• Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.

  Frank Herbert

  Night, Infinity

  Frank Herbert (1976). “CHILDREN OF DUNE”

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• His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

  Frank Herbert

  Voice, Adjectives, Lows

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.212, Penguin

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• There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

  Frank Herbert

  Limits, Constitution

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.54, Penguin

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• I am not the river I am the net.

  Frank Herbert

  Wisdom, Rivers

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• The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.

  Frank Herbert

  Summer, Heart, Dark

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• I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Would Be, Easy

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.273, Penguin

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• Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

  Frank Herbert

  Predictions, Absolutes, Completion

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

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• If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

  Frank Herbert

  Eye, Rely, Senses

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.201, Penguin

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• Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

  Frank Herbert

  Agreement, Wish, Tradition

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.134, Penguin

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• “You may have eternity. I have only now.”
  “But this is eternity.”

  Frank Herbert

  May, Beloved, Eternity

  "Dune Messiah".

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• Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

  Frank Herbert

  Responsibility, Army, People

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.149, Penguin

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