Quotes from Frank Herbert
Give as few orders as possible,' his father had told him … once … long ago. 'Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
- Frank Herbert
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.
- Frank Herbert
I'll give you my father's answer to those who act without thinking: 'A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
- Frank Herbert
The noise obviously wasn't penetrating to his quarters.
- Frank Herbert
IF.' 'If you had only . . . If we had but. . .' He wanted to shout them into silence. 'Only fools prefer the past!
- Frank Herbert
the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!
- Frank Herbert
If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.
- Frank Herbert
It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
- Frank Herbert
We open windows, Bell, and let in common sense. Even hilarity. Puts more serious matters in perspective.
- Frank Herbert
In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.
- Frank Herbert
If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
- Frank Herbert
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
- Frank Herbert