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• Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

  Frank Herbert

  Revenge, Justice, Pendulums

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.1, Macmillan

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• Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Drug Prohibition

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.113, Penguin

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• The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.

  Frank Herbert

  Writing, Historical, Secret

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.70, Penguin

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• If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Thinking, Government

  Frank Herbert (2017). “The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction”, p.107, Tor Science Fiction

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• Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

  Frank Herbert

  Mankind, Discontent

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• Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

  Frank Herbert

  Precision, Repeats, Monotonous

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.160, Penguin

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• Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Practice, Attention

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• Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

  Frank Herbert

  Enemy, Stronger, Allies

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• 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?

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Law, Enforcement

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.137, Penguin

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• Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.

  Frank Herbert

  Mean, Men, Self

  "Men on other planets" in "The Craft of Science Fiction" edited by Reginald Bretnor, 1976.

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• Caution is the path to mediocrity.

  Frank Herbert

  Mediocrity, Path, Caution

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.372, Penguin

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• You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.

  Frank Herbert

  Funny Love, Giving, Joy

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.272, Penguin

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• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

  Frank Herbert

  Strong, Moving, Greatness

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

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• FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

  Frank Herbert

  Fear, Fantasy Novels, Scary

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

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• Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

  Frank Herbert

  Exercise, Past, Fit

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• You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Too Much, Chaos

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.155, Penguin

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• Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Imagination, Feelings

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• Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Revenge, Retarded

  Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

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• A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

  Frank Herbert

  Coffee, Moving, Men

  "Dune (40th Anniversary Edition)". Book by Frank Herbert, Penguin, p. 30, August 2, 2005.

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• Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

  Frank Herbert

  Numbers, Space, Molecules

  Frank Herbert (2011). “Dune Messiah: The Second Dune Novel”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

  Frank Herbert

  Wealth, True Wealth, Universe

  "The Green Brain".

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• And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

  Frank Herbert

  Temptation, Warning, Safe

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.194, Penguin

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• When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Men, Doe

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

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• The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

  Frank Herbert

  Lessons, Things Change, Greater Power

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.162, Penguin

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• The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

  Frank Herbert

  Deception, Illusion

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.236, Penguin

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