List of quotes from Frank Herbert
"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual."
by Dune Frank Herbert
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires, seek discipline and find your liberty."
by Dune Frank Herbert
"Absolute power is the power to destroy."
by Dune Frank Herbert
"Truth is subject to too much analysis."
by Dune 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."
by Dune Frank Herbert
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."
by Dune First Law of Mentat Frank Herbert
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
by Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear Dune Frank Herbert
"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it."
by Chenoeh: Coversations with Leto II Frank Herbert