Quotes by
Frank Herbert |
1920-1986 , American sci-fi writer
Best known for the novel Dune (1965) and its 5 sequels. | 34 quotes | 1,021 visits |
Quotations
| • | All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. 7 |
| • | Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. 2 |
| • | Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. 2 |
| • | When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles. 2 |
| • | The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. 1 |
| • | Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts. 1 |
| • | You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences. 1 |
| • | Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. 1 |
| • | He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing. 1 |
| • | The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself. 1 |
| • | The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives, but have only one course of action in mind. |
| • | Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face. |
| • | A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. |
| • | The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. |
| • | Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. |
| • | Survival is the ability to swim in strange water. |
| • | Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. |
| • | Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded. |
| • | Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous. |
| • | Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man. |
| • | Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. |
| • | The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good. |
| • | Hope clouds observation. |
| • | There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves. |
| • | History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. |
| • | It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. |
| • | Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. |
| • | Knowing where the trap is – that's the first step in evading it. |
| • | Face your fears or they will climb over your back. |
| • | We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. |
| • | The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. |
| • | Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. |
| • | There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. |
| • | Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. |
