Quotes from Frank Herbert

Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response—never to forgive and never to forget.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.

Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?

He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.

You always know the creative because it is revealed openly. Concealment betrays the existence of another force entirely.

One doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.

Ve?ina ljudi nije dovoljno jaka za pronalaženje slobode u sebi.

Anything and anyone can fail, he said, but brave good friends help.

To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice?

Then are there no rules at all, Lord?" Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria. Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. "Perhaps one. Short—term decisions tend to fail in the long—term.

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