Frank Herbert Quotes

"The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

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

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

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

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

No conocerás el miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado girare mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Solo estare yo.

I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.