Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Frank Herbert
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
Frank Herbert
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert
Hope clouds observation.
Frank Herbert
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Frank Herbert
We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
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.
Frank Herbert
It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Frank Herbert
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
Frank Herbert
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Frank Herbert
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
Frank Herbert
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank Herbert
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Frank Herbert
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Frank Herbert
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Frank Herbert
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Frank Herbert
Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.
Frank Herbert