Quotes from Frank Herbert
Absolute power is the power to destroy.
- Frank Herbert
Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
- Frank Herbert
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
If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.
- Frank Herbert
You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
- Frank Herbert
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
- Frank Herbert
Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.
- Frank Herbert
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
- Frank Herbert
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
- Frank Herbert
I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.
- Frank Herbert
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
- Frank Herbert
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
- Frank Herbert