Famous Quotes / Frank Herbert
39 Quotations by Frank Herbert
- 1. A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, ...

- 2. Absolute power is the power to destroy.

- 3. All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy.

- 4. All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not tha ...

- 5. Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit ...

- 6. Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

- 7. Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human ...

- 8. Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

- 9. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the r ...

- 10. Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have becom ...

- 11. Fear is the mind killer

- 12. He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

- 13. Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of t ...

- 14. I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I ...

- 15. If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despoti ...

- 16. It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is neve ...

- 17. It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

- 18. It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the fu ...

- 19. Journalism is the entertainment business.

- 20. Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
