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The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made. By Frank Herbert History Gravest Error Thinking Make

Have you heard the latest word from Arrakis?" the Baron asked. "No, Uncle." Feyd-Rautha forced himself not to look back. He turned down the hall out of the servants' wing. "They've a new prophet or religious leader of some kind among the Fremen," the Baron said. "They call him Muad'Dib. Very funny, really. It means 'the Mouse.' I've told Rabban to let them have their religion. It'll keep them occupied. By Frank Herbert Arrakis Baron Asked Heard Latest

We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are not being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power. By Frank Herbert Behaviour Plagued Corrupt Polity Promotes

If some crazy bastard tossed you into a lake when you couldn't swim, and you learned to swim like that" - Bickel snapped his fingers - "and you found then you could just keep on going, wouldn't you swim like hell to get away from the crazy bastard? By Frank Herbert Swim Bickel Crazy Bastard Fingers

My family sat in their pool courtyard," Harah said, "in air bathed by the moisture that arose from the spray of a fountain. There was a tree of portyguls, round and deep in color, near at hand. There was a basket with mish mish and baklawa and mugs of liban - all manner of good things to eat. In our gardens and, in our flocks, there was peace ... peace in all the land.""Life was full with happiness until the raiders came," Alia said."Blood ran cold at the scream of friends," Jessica said. And she felt the memories rushing through her out of all those other pasts she shared."La, la, la, the women cried," said Harah. By Frank Herbert Courtyard Fountain Harah Family Sat

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death? By Frank Herbert Death Greater Gift Demonstrate Fear

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 Frank Herbert Fear Mindkiller Obliteration Littledeath Brings

They displayed a sophistication in warfare as good as anything he had ever encountered, and he had been trained by the best fighters in the universe then seasoned in battles where only the superior few survived. By Frank Herbert Encountered Survived Displayed Sophistication Warfare

Now, motivational patterns are going to be similar among all espionage agents. That is to say: there will be certain types of motivation that are similar despite differing schools or opposed aims. You will study first how to separate this element for your analysis - in the beginning, through interrogation patterns that betray the inner orientation of the interrogators; secondly, by close observation of language-thought orientation of those under analysis. You will find it fairly simple to determine the root languages of your subjects, of course, both through voice inflection and speech pattern. By Frank Herbert Motivational Agents Similar Espionage Analysis

She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus. By Frank Herbert Nexus Thought Boy Features Exquisite

want their willing cooperation, Gurney. Those men have experience and skills we need. The fact that they're leaving suggests they're not part of the Harkonnen machine. Hawat believes there could be some bad ones planted in the group, but he sees assassins in every shadow." "Thufir has found some very productive shadows in his time, m'Lord." "And there are some he hasn't found. But I think planting sleepers in this outgoing crowd would show too much imagination for the Harkonnens." "Possibly, Sire. Where are these men?" "Down on the lower level, in a waiting room. I suggest you go down and play a tune or two to soften their minds, then turn on the pressure. You may offer positions of authority By Frank Herbert Gurney Cooperation Men Found Harkonnen

Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me the most. I distrust extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who from such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. By Frank Herbert Safaris Things Liberal Find Governments

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it's that patterns are repeated. My oppressions, by and large, are no worse than any of the others and, at least, I teach a new lesson. - By Frank Herbert Scratch Find Future Governments Conservative

There's always a prevailing mystique in any civilization," Leto said. "It builds itself as a barrier against change, and that always leaves future generations unprepared for the universe's treachery. All mystiques are the same in building these barriers - the religious mystique, the hero-leader mystique, the messiah mystique, the mystique of science/technology, and the mystique of nature itself. We live in an Imperium which such a mystique has shaped, and now that Imperium is falling apart because most people don't distinguish between mystique and their universe. You see, the mystique is like demon possession; it tends to take over the consciousness, becoming all things to the observer. By Frank Herbert Mystique Leto Imperium Civilization Prevailing

There's an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet," Kynes said. "You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. Its aim is simple: to maintain and produce coordinated patterns of greater and greater diversity. Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships." This By Frank Herbert Life Kynes Greater Beauty Planet

The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life Curtaineth into rest the weary world And shuts us in with all our hid delights. By Frank Herbert Brooding Earth Night Love Hearts

The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be. By Frank Herbert Father Harness Capability Child Refuses

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. By Frank Herbert Wind Submits Prospers Day Wall

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there now doing the thing on paper. You're not killing the goose, you're just producing an egg. So I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I've heard about it. I've felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I'd much rather go fishing, for example, or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write." There's no difference on paper between the two. By Frank Herbert Moment Creating Man Fool Put

Limits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which a generation may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate which set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe climatic provinces, fluctuations of annual weather and, occasionally may observe such things as "This is a colder year than I've ever known." Such things are sensible. But humans are seldom alerted to the shifting average through a great span of years. And it is precisely in this alerting that humans learn how to survive on any planet. They must learn climate. - By Frank Herbert Climate Limits Notice Set Humans

I knew Frank Herbert for more than thirty-eight years. He was a magnificent human being, a man of great honor and distinction, and the most interesting person at any gathering, drawing listeners around him like a magnet. To say he was an intellectual giant would be an understatement, since he seemed to contain all of the knowledge of the universe in his marvelous mind. He was my father, and I loved him deeply. By Frank Herbert Frank Herbert Years Knew Thirtyeight

One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can't evade it. I heard my father when he spoke of my mother. She's not the betrayer, Gurney. By Frank Herbert Paul Life Taste Terrible Boy

Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make speedy decisions when necessary. They fit an ancient human demand for a parental (tribal/feudal) hierarchy where every person knows his place. It is valuable to know your place, even if that place is temporary. It is galling to be held in place against your will. This is why I teach about tyranny in the best possible way - by example. By Frank Herbert Monarchies Qualities Place Good Features

I observed you in pain, lad. Pain's merely the axis of the test. Your mother's told you about our ways of observing. I see the signs of her teaching in you. Our test is crisis and observation. By Frank Herbert Lad Pain Observed Test Observing

To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen.-The Amtal Rule By Frank Herbert Rule Amtal Limits Seen Thing

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched. By Frank Herbert Sameness Powerful Passion Tyrants Made

I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved savage decisions, a kind of wanton brutality which civilized humankind works very hard to suppress. What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction? -The Stolen Journals By Frank Herbert People Ancestors Evil Journals Extreme

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training. By Frank Herbert Meet Great Training Strangers Allowances

Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness ... focusing the consciousness ... aortal dilation ... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness ... to be conscious by choice ... blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions ... one does not obtain food-safety freedom by instinct alone ... animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct ... the animal destroys and does not produce ... animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual ... the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe ... focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid ... bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs ... all things/cells/beings are impermanent ... strive for flow-permanence within ... By Frank Herbert Consciousness Responses Quick Breaths Triggered

I will tell you a thing about your new name," Stilgar said. "The choice pleases us. Muad'Dib is wise in the ways of the desert. Muad'Dib creates his own water. Muad'Dib hides from the sun and travels in the cool night. Muad'Dib is fruitful and multiplies over the land. Muad'Dib we call 'instructor-of-boys.' That is a powerful base on which to build your life, Paul-Muad'Dib, who is Usul among us. We welcome you." Stilgar By Frank Herbert Muaddib Stilgar Thing Usul Choice

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune By Frank Herbert Life Confine Observing Miss Point

The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible. By Frank Herbert Power Mistakes Question Leaders Corruptible

Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize. By Frank Herbert Power Religious Business Derivative Governmental

There's another thing, Jessica thought. Paul must be cautioned about their women. One of these desert women would not do as wife to a Duke. As concubine, yes, but not as wife. By Frank Herbert Jessica Thing Thought Wife Duke

Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives. By Frank Herbert Chani Concubine Bound Princess Live

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence. By Frank Herbert Senses Argument Violence Closes Doors

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment. By Frank Herbert Educational Sensitivity Bureaucracies Dull Child

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said."Nothing about religion is simple. By Frank Herbert Simple Fremen Practical Said Religion

...We Fremen have a saying: 'God created Arrakis to train the faithful.' One cannot go against the word of God. By Frank Herbert Fremen Arrakis God Faithful Created

Truth suffers from too much analysis.-Ancient Fremen Saying By Frank Herbert Ancient Fremen Truth Analysis Suffers

For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say.""The thing was written with salt," Irulan translated. By Frank Herbert Irulan Fremen Mektub Mellah Say

I will not argue with the Fremen claims that they are divinely inspired to transmit a religious revelation. It is their concurrent claim to ideological revelation which inspires me to shower them with derision. Of course, they make the dual claim in the hope that it will strengthen their mandarinate and help them to endure in a universe which finds them increasingly oppressive. It is in the name of all those oppressed people that I warn the Fremen: short-term expediency always fails in the long term. - THE PREACHER AT ARRAKEEN By Frank Herbert Fremen Revelation Claim Argue Divinely

Where is Alia?' she asked.'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,' Paul said. 'She's killing enemy wounded ... By Frank Herbert Alia Paul Fremen Asked Times

Wild Fremen said it well: Four things cannot be hidden love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled. By Frank Herbert Smoke Fremen Wild Love Bled

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick. By Frank Herbert Tuek Power Thought Spoken Real

They compose poems to their knives. By Frank Herbert Knives Compose Poems

Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water's passage. The water flowed off those walls without binding tension. She saw a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists. By Frank Herbert Jessica Water Superb Measurement Thought

The Fremen! They're paying the Guild for privacy, paying in a coin that's freely available to anyone with desert power - spice. By Frank Herbert Fremen Spice Guild Paying Privacy

This is likely one of the roots of Fremen emphasis on superstition (disregarding the Missionaria Protectiva's ministrations). What matter that whistling sands are an omen? What matter that you must make the sign of the fist when first you see First Moon? A man's flesh is his own and his water belongs to the tribe - and the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience. Omens help you remember this. And because you are here, because you have the religion, victory cannot evade you in the end. By Frank Herbert Fremen Missionaria Protectiva Superstition Disregarding

Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert. By Frank Herbert Polish Cities Wisdom Desert

You have defiled my honor!" Stilgar cried. "This is neutral - " "Shut up!" Idaho glared at the shocked Naib. "You wear a collar, Stilgar! " It was one of the three most deadly insults which could be directed at a Fremen. Stilgar's face went pale. "You are a servant," Idaho said. "You've sold Fremen for their water." This was the second most deadly insult, the one which had destroyed the original Jacurutu. By Frank Herbert Stilgar Honor Idaho Fremen Defiled

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. By Frank Herbert Spannungsbogen Fremen Thing Called Supreme

He doesn't appear much, does he - one frightened old fat man too weak to support his own flesh without the help of suspensors." It By Frank Herbert Suspensors Frightened Fat Man Weak

A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with it's plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as Nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems. When a human gains this knowledge and respect, that is called "being primitive". The converse, of course, is equally true: the primitive human can become sophisticated, but not without incurring dreadful psychological damage. By Frank Herbert Human Primitive Requires Sophisticated Knowledge

My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you! By Frank Herbert Lord Leto Uncle Malky God

Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes. Conceal your truths within words. Natural ambiguity will protect you then. By Frank Herbert Sister Beware Gentle Truth Find

You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said."And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death. By Frank Herbert Said Living Life Preserve Survivors

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing? By Frank Herbert Moneo Reassuring Ceiling Open Sky

Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced - in a word, insane. By Frank Herbert People Power Human Give Critical

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind. By Frank Herbert Heard Chewing Leg Escape Trap

You can't stop a mental epidemic. It leaps from person to person across parsecs. It's overwhelmingly contagious. It strikes at the unprotected side, in the place where we lodge the fragments of other such plagues. Who can stop such a thing? Muad'dib hasn't the antidote. The thing has roots in chaos. Can orders reach there? By Frank Herbert Epidemic Mental Person Stop Thing

We say, "Well, the only answer is ... " or, "If you would just ... " Whatever follows these two statements narrows the choices right there. It gets the vision right down close to the ground so that you don't see anything happening outside. Humans tend not to see over a long range. Now we are required, in these generations, to have a longer range view of what we inflict on the world around us. This is where, I think, science fiction is helping. I don't think that the mere writing of such a book as Brave New World or 1984 prevents those things which are portrayed in those books from happening. But I do think they alert us to that possibility and make that possibility less likely. They make us aware that we may be going in that direction. By Frank Herbert Answer World Range Happening Possibility

At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable one where the passage of a single planet can be timed to a picosecond, other forces come into play. For the in-between universe where we find our daily lives, that which you believe is a dominant force. Your beliefs order the unfolding of daily events. If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order. By Frank Herbert Universe Predictable Place Numbers Quantum

Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. People enter a permanent state of alertness to ward off attacks. You see the absolute rule of the autocrat. All new things become dangerous frontier districts - new planets, new economic areas to exploit, new ideas or new devices, visitors - everything suspect. Feudalism takes firm hold, sometimes disguised as a politbureau or similar structure, but always present. Hereditary succession follows the lines of power. The blood of the powerful dominates. By Frank Herbert Unceasing Epochs Warfare Rise Social

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build. By Frank Herbert Words Carry Burden Build Required

There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake. By Frank Herbert Bene Gesserit Protested Body Mistake

One who rules assumes irrevocable responsibility for the ruled. You are a husbandman. This demands, at times, a selfless act of love which may only be amusing to those you rule. By Frank Herbert Ruled Assumes Irrevocable Responsibility Husbandman

There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness. By Frank Herbert Evil Promote Prosper Fair Honesty

Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions. By Frank Herbert Military Suicidal Foolishness Ultimately Choosing

Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd! By Frank Herbert Crawling Wormfaced Sandbrained Turd Piece

The omnipresent enemy was the outside - that total absence of the things to support life that emptiness called space. It was evil and they feared it - constantly. A rod and staff might comfort in the presence of space, but what you dreamed about was washed air and a womblike enclosed cell where you could divest yourself of the damnable suit. This was the true source of comfort no matter if it came from the Devil himself. By Frank Herbert Space Omnipresent Enemy Total Absence

It's a beautiful morning, Sire," the guard said"Yes, it is."The Duke nodded, thinking: Perhaps this planet could grow on one. Perhaps it could ba a good home for my son.Then he saw the human figures moving into the flower fields, sweeping with them strange scythe-like devicesdew gatherers. Water so precious here that even the dew must be collected.And it could be a hideous place, the Duke thought. By Frank Herbert Sire Thinking Duke Morning Nodded

You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me. The By Frank Herbert Count Salusa Secundus Emperor Planet

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known. By Frank Herbert Religion Life Called Carried Unconscious

Full moon calls theeShai-hulud shall thou see; Red the night, dusky sky, Bloody death didst thou die. We pray to a moon: she is roundLuck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground. By Frank Herbert Red Bloody Full Night Dusky

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration. By Frank Herbert Futurism Limits Exploration Define Accepted

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it. By Frank Herbert Life Regard Find Reasons Sustain

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. By Frank Herbert Precisely Mountain Road End Leads

Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it's that patterns are repeated. By Frank Herbert Aristocracies People Formed Governments Promised

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. By Frank Herbert Free Men Machines Turned Thinking

I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist. By Frank Herbert Void Hear Wind Blowing Desert

Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on festering thoughts - voices gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast. By Frank Herbert Paul Faces Chattering Suddenly Repelled

You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war. By Frank Herbert Babylon Overturned Man Defeated Fallen

Gurney's a romantic," the Duke growled. This talk of killing suddenly disturbed him, coming from his son. "I'd sooner you never had to kill ... but if the need arises, you do it however you can - tip or edge." He looked up at the skylight, on which the rain was drumming. By Frank Herbert Duke Gurney Romantic Growled Coming

If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control. By Frank Herbert Propriety Desires Behave Matter Costs

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him! By Frank Herbert Reality Realize Humans Bear Stable

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science. By Frank Herbert Politics Structures Tripod Unstable Science

I'll be the judge of that! I command you to speak at once!" "Permit me to land us first," he said. And not waiting for her permission, he turned onto the base leg, brought the wings into optimum lift, settled gently onto the bright orange pad atop the roof. "Now," Alia said. "Speak." "I told him that to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe." She shook her head. "That's . . . that's . . ." "A bitter pill," he said, watching the guards run toward them across the roof, taking up their escort positions. By Frank Herbert Judge Speak Roof Permit Alia

Taraza cleared her throat. "No need. Lucilla is one of our finest Imprinters. Each of you, of course, received the identical liberal conditioning to prepare you for this." There was something almost insulting in Taraza's casual tone and only the habits of long association put down Odrade's immediate resentment. It was partly that word "liberal," she realized. Atreides ancestors rose up in rebellion at the word. It was as though her accumulated female memories lashed out at the unconscious assumptions and unexamined prejudices behind the concept. "Only liberals really think. Only liberals are intellectual. Only liberals understand the needs of their fellows." How much viciousness lay concealed in that word! Odrade thought. How much secret ego demanding to feel superior. By Frank Herbert Word Throat Taraza Liberals Cleared

Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. By Frank Herbert Motivating People Forcing Humanity Cynical

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam. By Frank Herbert Oppressor Reversed Oppressed Learned Copied

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. By Frank Herbert Things Home Computer Revolution General

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give. By Frank Herbert Reader Unwritten Compact Energy Money

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. By Frank Herbert Truth Carries Ambiguity Words Express

Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required. By Frank Herbert Selfdeception Humans Intellect Born Susceptibility

You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences. By Frank Herbert Consequences Love Give Joy Damn

She rides the sandworm of space!She guides through all stormsInto the land of gentle winds.Though we sleep by the snake's den,She guards our dreaming sould.Shunning the desert heat,She hides us in a cool hollow.The gleaming of her white teethGuides us in the night. By the braids of her hairWe are lifted to heaven!Sweet fragrance, flower-scented,Surrounds us in her presence. By Frank Herbert Space Night Rides Sandworm Guides

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained. By Frank Herbert Rocks Weed Muaddib Grow Moved

I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do. By Frank Herbert Storms Giving Love Time Quiet

She used these moments as she used all such time now to gird herself for the coming necessities. Time pressed; a special calendar drove her. She had looked at a calendar before leaving Chapter House, caught as often happened to her by the persistence of time and its language: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years ... Standard Years, to be precise. Persistence was an inadequate word for the phenomenon. Inviolability was more like it. Tradition. Never disturb tradition. She held the comparisons firmly in mind, the ancient flow of time imposed on planets that did not tick to the primitive human clock. A week was seven days. Seven! How powerful that number remained. Mystical. It was enshrined in the Orange Catholic Bible. The Lord made a world in six days "and on the seventh day He rested." Good for Him! Odrade thought. We all should rest after great labors. By Frank Herbert Time Years Necessities Moments Gird

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. This is the most basic key to my life. By Frank Herbert Liberty Freedom Concepts Complex Absolute

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip. By Frank Herbert Tip Nicety Awareness Difference Blade

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. By Frank Herbert Error Persistent Principles Universe Accident

I think you are a little afraid because you suspect what I suspect - that there was no natural disaster. They did it themselves, to themselves.""If this is their own sad handiwork, ... what are our chances of finding friends among people so much to be feared? By Frank Herbert Suspect Disaster Afraid Natural Themselves

The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But By Frank Herbert Baron Harkonnen Emperor Path Ahead

A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips. By Frank Herbert Life Person Cries Lonely Broken

Power and fear," he said. "The tools of statecraft. By Frank Herbert Power Fear Statecraft Tools

What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. And here's where an Emperor commands orderly solutions. Those collisions he cannot prevent he solves. By Frank Herbert Justice Collide Emperor Sphere Forces

Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships. By Frank Herbert Life Relationships Service Greater Increases

You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably much face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic. By Frank Herbert Orthodox Religion Avoid Interplay Politics

They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encountered. By Frank Herbert Purpose Defense Threatening Intelligence Encountered

Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it! By Frank Herbert Experiment Sense Deduction Final Ripples

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be. By Frank Herbert Morality Father Told Respect Close

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things ... " she held up four big-knuckled fingers. " ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing ... " She closed her fingers into a fist. " ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! By Frank Herbert Lad Grave Memory World Supported

A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. By Frank Herbert Things Wise Great Brave World

What a dolt my father sends me for weaponry," Paul intoned. "This doltish Gurney Halleck has forgotten the first lesson for a fighting man armed and shielded." Paul snapped the force button at his waist, felt the crinkled-skin tingling of the defensive field at his forehead and down his back, heard external sounds take on characteristic shield-filtered flatness. "In shield fighting, one moves fast on defense, slow on attack," Paul said. "Attack has the sole purpose of tricking the opponent into a misstep, setting him up for the attack sinister. The shield turns the fast blow, admits the slow kindjal!" Paul snapped up the rapier, feinted fast and whipped it back for a slow thrust timed to enter a shield's mindless defenses. By Frank Herbert Paul Attack Weaponry Intoned Shield

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. By Frank Herbert Technology Investors Avoidance Risks Uncertainty

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on.""How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom," Leto said. By Frank Herbert Leto Wisdom Find Realize Fortunate

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation. By Frank Herbert Bene Gesserit Tension Observation Missed

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. By Frank Herbert Endure Forms Increasingly Aristocratic Government

Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe - a man to be trusted because the captain's vices were known. By Frank Herbert Kudu Umman Scissorsline Muscles Chin

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance. By Frank Herbert Duke Great Houses Alliance Long

Natural selection has been described as an environment selectively screening for those who will have progeny. Where humans are concerned, though, this is an extremely limiting viewpoint. Reproduction by sex tends toward experiment and innovation. It raises many questions, including the ancient one about whether environment is a selective agent after the variation occurs, or whether environment plays a pre-selective role in determining the variations which it screens. Dune did not really answer those questions: it merely raised new questions which Leto and the Sisterhood may attempt to answer over the next five hundred generations. - THE DUNE CATASTROPHE AFTER HARQ AL-ADA By Frank Herbert Environment Natural Progeny Selection Selectively

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. By Frank Herbert Sentiment Sentimental Road Driver Rabbit

The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices. [ ... ] They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems. [ ... ] A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors. [ ... ] Oh, they depend on verbal orders. They never lie about what they've done if their verbal orders cause problems, and they surround themselves with people able to act wisely on the basis of verbal orders. Often, the most important piece of information is that something has gone wrong. Bad administrators hide their mistakes until it's too late to make corrections. By Frank Herbert Bad Good Administrator Heartbeats Verbal

This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs and crimson shadows, laments and rivers of martyrs - what had it come to at last? When the waves receded, the shores of Time would spread out there clean, empty, shining with infinite grains of memory and little else. By Frank Herbert Adam Imagination Love Shadows Laments

It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches. By Frank Herbert Forms Niches Power Busab Axiom

Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. Paul accepted them both in his left hand as required by the ritual. "They are my own hooks," Shishakli said in a husky voice. "They never have failed. By Frank Herbert Shishakli Thin Whiplike Approached Paul

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism. By Frank Herbert Unitidentity Great Mass Humankind Possesses

In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are somtimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary. By Frank Herbert Nature Unchanging Inexorable Universe Temporary

And he thought: I'm a seed.He suddenly saw how fertile was the ground into which he had fallen, and with this realization, the terrible purpose filled him, creeping through the empty places within, threatening to choke him with grief. By Frank Herbert Thought Fallen Realization Creeping Threatening

Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides. The By Frank Herbert Atreides House Arrakis Emperor Bestowed

Our civilization appears to've fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up. By Frank Herbert Imperium Civilization Fallen Deeply Habit

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? By Frank Herbert Law Power Chooses Sides Basis

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability. By Frank Herbert Equal Humans Evolution Deevolution Death

We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language. By Frank Herbert Ideas Language Sift Reality Screens

In the wrong hands," Leto said, "monolithic centralized power is a dangerous and volatile instrument." - "And your hands are the right ones? By Frank Herbert Leto Monolithic Instrument Hands Wrong

The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness. By Frank Herbert Reverend Mother Goddess Holding Endure

Here lies a toppled god.His fall was not a small one.We did but build his pedestal,A narrow and a tall one. By Frank Herbert Lies Toppled Godhis Fall Small

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated something more into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow. By Frank Herbert People Happiness Joy Deeper Sense

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. By Frank Herbert Atrocity Alike Remove Recognized Victim

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New By Frank Herbert Thinking Mentats Knew Blind Learning

The universe is just there; that's the only way a Fedaykin can view it and remain the master of his senses. The universe neither threatens nor promises. It holds things beyond our sway: the fall of a meteor, the eruption of a spiceblow, growing old and dying. These are the realities of this universe and they must be faced regardless of how you feel about them. You cannot fend off such realities with words. They will come at you in their own wordless way and then, then you will understand what is meant by "life and death." Understanding this, you will be filled with joy. - MUAD'DIB TO HIS FEDAYKIN By Frank Herbert Universe Senses View Remain Master

She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul By Frank Herbert Bene Gesserit Faster Cart Quoted

When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path. By Frank Herbert Baraka Man Path Cart Religion

Dune Messiah, Frank Herbert's first sequel to Dune, was published in 1969. In that book, he flipped over what he called the "myth of the hero" and showed the dark side of Paul Atreides. Some readers didn't understand it. Why would the author do that to his great hero? In interviews, Dad spent years afterward explaining why, and his reasons were sound. He believed that charismatic leaders could be dangerous because they could lead their followers off the edge of a cliff. By Frank Herbert Dune Messiah Frank Herbert Sequel

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality. By Frank Herbert Morality Time Religious Laws Replace

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion By Frank Herbert Justice Motion Claim Belongs Claimant

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. By Frank Herbert Democracy Electorate Susceptible Led Astray

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back. By Frank Herbert Back Mind Working Matter Hold

Mercy is a chimera. By Frank Herbert Mercy Chimera

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer. By Frank Herbert Radicals Feared Suppress Offer Demonstrate

How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them? By Frank Herbert Information Flood Village City People

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage. By Frank Herbert Wanted Sincerity Radiate Charm Days

The smoke! The golden smoke! His robe whipped upward, turning him until his face was directed downward into the abyss. With his gaze on the depths, he recognized a maelstrom of boiling rapids there, the mirror of his life-precipitous currents and plunges, all movement gathering up all substance. Leto's words wound through his mind on a path of golden smoke: "Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve." Moneo fell freely then in the ecstasy of awareness. The universe opened for him like clear glass, everything flowing in a no Time. By Frank Herbert Smoke Golden Mediocrity Path Caution

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead By Frank Herbert Knowledge Culture Dead Meeting Ignorance

Expediency was the first word in his catechism, although he gave proper lip-service to the precepts of the Butlerians. Machines could not be fashioned in the image of a man's mind, he said, but he betrayed by every action that he preferred machines to men, statistics to individuals, the faraway general view to the intimate personal touch requiring imagination and initiative. As By Frank Herbert Butlerians Expediency Catechism Word Gave

I will await below," Stilgar said, "while Idaho makes farewell with his friends. Turok was the name of our dead friend. Remember that when it comes time to release his spirit. You are friends of Turok. By Frank Herbert Stilgar Idaho Turok Await Makes

How do we approach the study of Muad'Dib's father? A man of surpassing warmth and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Bene Gesserit lady; the dreams he held for his son; the devotion with which men served him. You see him there - a man snared by Destiny, a lonely figure with his light dimmed behind the glory of his son. Still, one must ask: What is the son but an extension of the father? By Frank Herbert Duke Son Approach Study Father

I must rule with eye and claw - as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides By Frank Herbert Claw Birds Duke Atreides Rule

But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth. -Dr.Yueh By Frank Herbert Tooth Forms Remember Attack Strange

Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. By Frank Herbert Change Sleeps Inside Seldom Awakens

THE DUKE Leto Atreides leaned against a parapet of the landing control tower outside Arrakeen. The night's first moon, an oblate silver coin, hung well above the southern horizon. Beneath it, the jagged cliffs of the Shield Wall shone like parched icing through a dust haze. To his left, the lights of Arrakeen glowed in the haze - yellow ... white ... blue. By Frank Herbert Duke Leto Atreides Arrakeen Leaned

I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create. By Frank Herbert Stand Presence Sacred Human Day

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. By Frank Herbert Action People Distrust Improve Lives

Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance By Frank Herbert Performance Conversation Unique Jazz Ears

My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy. By Frank Herbert Enemy Mother Jihad Bringing Bore

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. By Frank Herbert Clinging Dangerous Logic Form Conservatism

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears. By Frank Herbert Ears World Language Good Ruler

Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves. By Frank Herbert Knowing Supposed Small Leto Children

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied. By Frank Herbert Religion Remain Outlet People Kind

I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex. By Frank Herbert Trust Friendship Sex Respect Grows

Earth? Golden Age? Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time? By Frank Herbert Earth Age Golden Paul Stilgar

When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles. By Frank Herbert Freedom Principles Weaker Thn Stronger

In the perfect society, there is neither emotion nor mercy; precious space cannot be wasted on those who have outlived their usefulness. By Frank Herbert Society Mercy Precious Usefulness Perfect

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. By Frank Herbert Nature Mistakes Make Categories Wrong

Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational. By Frank Herbert Pointer Telling Paradox Educational Absolutes

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom. By Frank Herbert Understand Wise Man Ignorance Wisdom

The successful writer listens to himself. By Frank Herbert Successful Writer Listens

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting. By Frank Herbert Mood Arises Baliset Fight Necessity

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections. By Frank Herbert Create Complexity Arouse Unbridled Forces

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change By Frank Herbert Dangers Lurk Systems Beliefs Creators

Control the coinage and the courts - let the rabble have the rest. By Frank Herbert Control Courts Rest Coinage Rabble

Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words. By Frank Herbert Demagogues Identify Easy Sincerity Practice

Whirling silence settled around Jessica. Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it. She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic particle, yet capable of motion and of sensing her surroundings. Like an abrupt revelation - the curtains whipped away - she realized she had become aware of a psychokinesthetic extension of herself. She was the mote, yet not the mote. By Frank Herbert Jessica Mote Whirling Silence Settled

There was a man who sat each day looking out through a narrow vertical opening where a single board had been removed from a tall wooden fence. Each day a wild ass of the desert passed outside the fence and across the narrow opening - first the nose, then the head, the forelegs, the long brown back, the hindlegs, and lastly the tail. One day, the man leaped to his feet with the light of discovery in his eyes and he shouted for all who could hear him: It is obvious! The nose causes the tail! By Frank Herbert Day Narrow Opening Fence Tail

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. By Frank Herbert Solve Experience Mystery Life Problem

But that's the function I expect of you, cousin. It's why I chose you. I'll make it official. I will give you a new name. From this moment, you'll be called Breaking of the Habit, which in our tongue is Harq al-Ada. Come, cousin, don't be obtuse. My mother taught you well. Give me your Sardaukar. By Frank Herbert Cousin Function Expect Give Habit

Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered question? Consider: How much is actual prediction of the "wave form" (as Muad'Dib referred to his vision-image) and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What of the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? By Frank Herbert Prophecy Prescience Question Put Test

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation. By Frank Herbert Imagination Perspective Create Manipulated Universe

The writing of history is largely a diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. By Frank Herbert Diversion Writing History Largely Events

From the Hive Manual. The relationship between ecology and evolution is extremely close, deeply implicated in organic changes among a given animal population, and profoundly sensitive to the density of numbers within a given habitat. Our adaptations aim to increase the population tolerance, to permit a human density ten to twelve times greater than is currently considered possible. Out of this, we will get our survival variations. By Frank Herbert Manual Hive Population Density Close

Arrakis is a one-crop planet," his father said. "One crop. It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings. It's the masses and the leavings that occupy our attention. These are far more valuable than has ever been suspected. By Frank Herbert Arrakis Planet Onecrop Father Leavings

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite. By Frank Herbert Discipline Designed Limit Hidden Liberate

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run. By Frank Herbert History Catastrophe Constant Race Invention

How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover. By Frank Herbert Nearideal Balance Cover Strange People

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. By Frank Herbert Highly Organized Research Guaranteed Produce

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth." By Frank Herbert Minimum Law Kind Worst Potential

I'll never be a Mentat," he said. "I'm something else ... a freak. By Frank Herbert Mentat Freak

Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an absolute future, then that's only death disguised! Such a future becomes now! By Frank Herbert Abandon Life Certainty Future Command

You know the myth of the Great Spice Hoard? Yes, I know about that story, too. A majordomo brought it to me one day to amuse me. The story says there is a hoard of melange, a gigantic hoard, big as a great mountain. The hoard is concealed in the depths of a distant planet. It is not Arrakis, that planet. It is not Dune. The spice was hidden there long ago, even before the First Empire and the Spacing Guild. The story says Paul-Muad'Dib went there and lives yet beside the hoard, kept alive by it, waiting. The majordomo did not understand why the story disturbed me. By Frank Herbert Hoard Story Great Spice Myth

Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injuries occur and, thus, the need for laws. The law develops its own power structure, creating more wounds and new injustices. Such trauma can be healed by cooperation, not by confrontation. The summons to cooperate identifies the healer. By Frank Herbert Remember Order Exists Malevolence Formation

They'd never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program. By Frank Herbert Paul Realized Victory Weakness Program

He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose. By Frank Herbert Eroding Life Consciousness Suspected Form

In all Things you must appear important. No minor decisions pass through your hands unless they are quiet acts called 'Favors' done for people whose loyalty can be earned. By Frank Herbert Things Important Favors Called Earned

as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath By Frank Herbert Beneath Past Added Happened Times

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story. By Frank Herbert Ending Real Story Place Stop

When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was concerned only with the writing. Six years of research had preceded the day I sat down to put the story together, and the interweaving of the many plot layers I had planned required a degree of concentration I had never before experienced. By Frank Herbert Dune Failure Writing Room Mind

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward. By Frank Herbert Janus Forward Path Simultaneously Backward

Once more the drama begins.' - The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne. By Frank Herbert Begins Drama Throne Emperor Paul

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. By Frank Herbert Greatness Transitory Sardonic Consistent Experience

Any path which narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap. Humans are not threading their way through a maze; they scan a vast horizon filled with unique opportunities. By Frank Herbert Trap Path Narrows Future Possibilities

Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat.Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke. By Frank Herbert Kynes Men Leto Stare Duke

This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against By Frank Herbert Duke Men Concerned Spice Risked

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. By Frank Herbert System Thing Ecologically Illiterate Realise

When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past ... but only feminine avenues ... Yet there's a place no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot - into both feminine and masculine pasts ... Many men have tried the drug ... so many, but none has succeeded.""They tried and failed, all of them?""They tried and died. By Frank Herbert Memory Truthsayer Drug Gifted Body

Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure. By Frank Herbert Moments Study Success Miss Opportunity

Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education. By Frank Herbert Listening Teacher Education Carefully Acquires

Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself. By Frank Herbert Life Mask Universe Expresses

Jessica, hearing the voices, felt the depth of the experience, realized what terrible inhibitions there must be against shedding tears. She focused on the words: "He gives moisture to the dead." It was a gift to the shadow world - tears. They would be sacred beyond a doubt. By Frank Herbert Jessica Tears Hearing Voices Felt

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind. By Frank Herbert Thou Mind Shalt Make Machine

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. By Frank Herbert Seek Desires Freedom Captive Liberty

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands ... By Frank Herbert Sands Lungs Taste Air Timeblown

Even in the most barren wasteland, a flower always grows. Recognize this, and learn to adapt to your surroundings.-Dr. Bryce Haynes (planetary ecologist assigned to study Duneworld) By Frank Herbert Wasteland Grows Barren Flower Haynes

The universe is full of doors. By Frank Herbert Doors Universe Full

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. By Frank Herbert Good Laws Govern Governance Depends

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. - LAW AND GOVERNANCE THE SPACING GUILD MANUAL W By Frank Herbert Government Good Govern Depends Personal

A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday lift - a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet coloured by the knowledge that life would not change for them. By Frank Herbert Buyers Singsong Shouts Filled Air

Come, come," the Baron said. "We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke." The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. "Piter doesn't have all his tools here, but I'm sure he could improvise.""Improvisation is sometimes the best, Baron. By Frank Herbert Baron Piter Duke Improvisation Leto

Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know what it is you learned from that lovely Dune planet - waste not? True, Baron?-Piter De Vries By Frank Herbert Hah Baron Mentat Piter Vries

Sometimes I wonder about Piter," the Baron said. "I cause pain out of necessity, but he ... I swear he takes a positive delight in it."-Baron Vladimir By Frank Herbert Piter Baron Vladimir Necessity Pain

Ah! Indeed but! But he consumes too much spice, eats it like candy. Look at his eyes! He might have come directly from the Arrakeen labor pool. Efficient, Piter, but he's still emotional and prone to passionate outbursts. Efficient, Piter, but he still can err. -Baron Vladimir By Frank Herbert Piter Efficient Baron Vladimir Arrakeen

Are you already training my replacement? Piter demanded. "Replace you? Why, Piter, where could I find another Mentat with your cunning and venom?""The same place you found me, Baron.""Perhaps I should at that," the Baron mused. "You do seem a bit unstable lately. And the spice you eat!""Are my pleasures too expensive, Baron? Do you object to them?""My dear Piter, your pleasures are what tie you to me. How could I object to that? By Frank Herbert Piter Replacement Baron Training Replace

Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not have worked. I let emotion cloud reason. Bad policy for a Mentat."-Piter De Vries By Frank Herbert Jessica Piter Spoke Mentat Vries

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly. By Frank Herbert Dreams Wrestle Shadows Victim Contend

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. By Frank Herbert Love Force Species Ancient Served

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering. By Frank Herbert Strong Tough Ferocious Men Play

Paul took a place in the line behind Chani. He had put down the black feeling at being caught by the girl. In his mind now was the memory called up by his mother's barked reminder: "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!" He found that his hand tingled with remembered pain. By Frank Herbert Chani Paul Place Line Girl

Only fools prefer the past! By Frank Herbert Past Fools Prefer

Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock. And there were ways to open any palm lock - as she had learned at school. By Frank Herbert Palm Lock Surely Told Lines

You can't build politics on love," he said. "People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. By Frank Herbert Love People Build Politics Disordered

One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently into the one that promises the most personal benefits. Here is the Achilles' heel of armies, police and bureaucracies. By Frank Herbert Elite Key Characteristics Corps Susceptibility

People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. We can't have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable? By Frank Herbert People Love Disordered Concerned Despotism

All men beneath your position covet your station, By Frank Herbert Station Men Beneath Position Covet

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. By Frank Herbert Manifest Destiny Providence Thinking Synonyms

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you. By Frank Herbert War Seas Behavior Roots Single

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION. By Frank Herbert Fear Mindkiller Obliteration Brings Total

I succumbed to the lure of the oracle, he thought. And he sensed that succumbing to this lure might be to fix himself upon a single-track life. Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future? By Frank Herbert Oracle Thought Lure Future Succumbed

Is that the name you wish, Muad'Dib?" Stilgar asked. "I am an Atreides," Paul whispered, and then louder: "It's not right that I give up entirely the name my father gave me. Could I be known among you as Paul-Muad'Dib?" "You are Paul-Muad'Dib," Stilgar said. And By Frank Herbert Muaddib Stilgar Atreides Paul Asked

This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be. She By Frank Herbert Purpose Tomorrow Life World Emptied

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul. By Frank Herbert Caladan Duke Power Paul Ruled

First, as to Time: there is no difference between ten thousand years and one year; no difference between one hundred thousand years and a heartbeat. No difference. That is the first fact about Time. And the second fact: the entire universe with all of its Time is within me. By Frank Herbert Difference Years Time Thousand Heartbeat

He thought: Jessica, mother of Muad'Dib and grandmother of these royal twins, returns to our planet today. Why does she end her self-imposed exile at this time? Why does she leave the softness and security of Caladan for the dangers of Arrakis? By Frank Herbert Jessica Thought Mother Twins Returns

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. By Frank Herbert Technology Tool Helping Humans Destroying

Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself?Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter.Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh?Baron: Have you been chewing verite or semuta, Piter? By Frank Herbert Baron Ahah Piter Someday Piterpiter

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him. By Frank Herbert Follow Riots Permanent Hostility

Technology breeds anarchy. It distributes these tools at random. And with them goes the provocation for violence. The ability to make and use savage destroyers falls inevitably into the hands of smaller and smaller groups until at last the group is a single individual. Moneo By Frank Herbert Technology Anarchy Breeds Smaller Random

Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. By Frank Herbert Experts Chaos Specialists Lead Quickly

Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It evolves beyond you and is no longer accessible to you. By Frank Herbert Universe Belief Persist Fixes Granular

Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked. By Frank Herbert Memories Asked Fastened Places Flesh

If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most. By Frank Herbert Moneo Deny Thought Reflection Report

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. By Frank Herbert Belief Manipulated Dangerous Knowledge

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention. By Frank Herbert Attention Individual Accountable Ultimately Formation

The night is a tunnel, she thought, a hole into tomorrow ... By Frank Herbert Tunnel Thought Tomorrow Night Hole

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned By Frank Herbert Imprisoned Soul Desires Body Listens

I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots? By Frank Herbert Halleck Land Quoted Stranger Strange

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, 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. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson. By Frank Herbert Arrakis Learn Muaddib Speed Learned

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. By Frank Herbert Learn Muaddib Learned Rapidly Training

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short. By Frank Herbert Memory Reality Recaptures Reconstructs Original

Paul sat down where Hawat had been, straightened the papers. One more day here, he thought. He looked around the room. We're leaving. The idea of departure was suddenly more real to him than it had ever been before. He recalled another thing the old woman had said about a world being the sum of many things - the people, the dirt, the growing things, the moons, the tides, the suns - the unknown sum called nature, a vague summation without any sense of the now. And he wondered: What is the now? By Frank Herbert Hawat Paul Straightened Papers Sat

A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept. By Frank Herbert Concept Plan Depends Execution

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science. By Frank Herbert Generalists Science Problems Planetology Draw

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors. By Frank Herbert Decisions Bad Administrator Concerned Reports

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. By Frank Herbert Justice Mistress Subject Required Resort

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. - Darwi Odrade By Frank Herbert Give Time Judgment Balanced Minds

Is evolution just another name for God? By Frank Herbert God Evolution

Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as god-inspired. This has long been the barrier to science assuming a mantle of divine revelation. Science is so obviously man-made. Fanatics (and many are fanatic on one subject or another) must know where you stand, but more important, must recognise who whispers in your ear. - Missionaria Protectiva, Primary Teaching. By Frank Herbert Enter Fanatics Conflict Defuse Religion

Paul confronted his son then, aiming the eyeless sockets at Leto. "Do you really know the universe you have created here? By Frank Herbert Leto Paul Aiming Confronted Son

The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change. By Frank Herbert Stil Past Change Show Behave

The most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange ... The spice extends life ... expands consciousness ... gives them the ability to fold space ... that is, travel to any part of the universe without moving. By Frank Herbert Melange Spice Precious Substance Universe

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind. By Frank Herbert Bloodshed Win Battle Skilled Leadership

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains. By Frank Herbert Chords Left Hope Dusty Hearts

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness. By Frank Herbert Wilderness Hearts Men Dwell

Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of her voice contained a difference than from any other voicing his experience. The words were outlined in brilliance. There was an edge to them. By Frank Herbert Mother Reverend Paul Pain Looked

TO THE LADY JESSICA-May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. My kindest wishes,MARGOT LADY FENRING By Frank Herbert Lady Jessicamay Place Give Pleasure

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations. By Frank Herbert Paul Tyranny Ultimate Power Overwhelming

This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here - the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos. By Frank Herbert Magic Atoms Aweinspiring Waves Motions

We are the people of Misr," the old woman rasped. "Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die. By Frank Herbert Misr Rasped Woman People Sunni

There was a man so wise,He jumped intoA sandy placeAnd burnt out both his eyes!And when he knew his eyes were gone,He offered no complaint.He summoned up a visionAnd made himself a saint. -Children's Verse from History of Muad'dib By Frank Herbert Eyes Saint Man Wisehe Jumped

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?Muad'Dib By Frank Herbert Muaddib God Inevitably Problem Leadership

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. Muad'Dib By Frank Herbert Discontent Muaddib Science People Muscles

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. By Frank Herbert Despise

Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble." O.C. By Frank Herbert Trouble Muaddib Person Child Untrained

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. By Frank Herbert Deep Sense Universe Human Unconscious

Muad'dib's Jihad was less than an eye-blink in this larger movement. The Bene Gesserit swimming in this tide, that corporate entity trading in genes, was trapped in the torrent as he was. Visions of a falling moon must be measured against other legends, other visions in a universe where even the seemingly eternal stars waned, flickered, died ... What mattered a single moon in such a universe? Far By Frank Herbert Jihad Movement Eyeblink Larger Universe

She didn't like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad'Dib as Him. By Frank Herbert Fact People Sietch Graben Referred

My brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him. By Frank Herbert Alia Brother Emperor Muaddib Tremble

There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense of justice? Whose justice, then? Remember, we speak now of the Muad'Dib who ordered battle drums made from his enemies' skins, the Muad'Dib who denied the conventions of his ducal past with a wave of the hand, saying merely: 'I am the Kwisatz Haderach. That is reason enough. By Frank Herbert Measuring Motives Standards Ordinary Justice

I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah? By Frank Herbert Question Simple Messiah Death Men

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 replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan. By Frank Herbert Empires Creation Suffer Emptiness Purpose

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?" Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. "We call that one muad'dib," Stilgar said. Jessica By Frank Herbert Mouse Jumps Basin Tuono Call

You, Priest in your mufti, you are a chaplain to the self-satisfied. I come not to challenge Muad'Dib but to challenge you! Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name? Whence comes your downward degeneration from the original revelation? Answer me, Priest! By Frank Herbert Religion Real Priest Mufti Selfsatisfied

Muad'dib rules everywhere," he said. "Arrakis is not my destination," she insisted. "Arrakis is the destination of everyone," he said. By Frank Herbert Arrakis Muaddib Rules Destination Insisted

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. By Frank Herbert Escape Ancestors Pay Violence

The waters which we spread upon the desert have become blood. Blood upon our land! Behold our desert which could rejoice and blossom; it has lured the stranger and seduced him in our midst. They come for violence! Their faces are closed up as for the last wind of Kralizec! They gather the captivity of the sand. They suck up the abundance of the sand, the treasure hidden in the depths. Behold them as they go forth to their evil work. It is written: 'And I stood upon the sand, and I saw a beast rise up out of that sand, and upon the head of that beast was the name of God! By Frank Herbert Sand Blood Desert Waters Spread

Insanity is something like drowning,' said Sparrow. 'You go under; you flounder without direction; By Frank Herbert Sparrow Insanity Drowning Direction Flounder

It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible. By Frank Herbert Power Corruptible Corrupts Magnet

Silence is often the best thing to say. By Frank Herbert Silence Thing

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. By Frank Herbert Immortality Form Deny Mortality Formless

He's awake and listening to us," said the old woman. "Sly little rascal." She chuckled. "But royalty has need of slyness. And if he's really the Kwisatz Haderach ... well ... . By Frank Herbert Woman Sly Awake Listening Haderach

Humans have a tendency to complain whenever the old must give way to the new. But change is the natural way of the universe, and we must learn to embrace it rather than fear it. The very process of transformation and adaptation strengthens the species. By Frank Herbert Humans Tendency Complain Give Universe

CHOAM is business and business follows profits. By Frank Herbert Choam Profits Business

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought. By Frank Herbert Thought Duke Son Wear Title

It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness. By Frank Herbert Carelessness Desert Possession Water Great

Once . . . long ago, he'd thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him. By Frank Herbert Long Ago Government Patterns Memory

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us. By Frank Herbert Logic Apply Personal Problems Scan

You know the story of Eve and the apple. Here's an interesting fact about that story: Eve was not the first to pluck and sample the apple. Adam was first and he learned by this to put the blame on Eve. My story tells you something about how our societies find a structural necessity for sub-groups. Moneo By Frank Herbert Eve Apple Story Interesting Fact

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today. By Frank Herbert Grandfather Time Mistakes Born Made

Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be. By Frank Herbert Falsehood Truth Knowing Darkness Attempt

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. By Frank Herbert Falsehood Truth Knowing Attempt Darkness

We've lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy - or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing? By Frank Herbert Lost Decisions Vital Fall Wait

The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation By Frank Herbert Stagnation Clear Safe Path Leads

People with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. By Frank Herbert Goal People Fanaticism Easy Imbue

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul's place for him. By Frank Herbert Needed Goal People Essential Ingredients

Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack. The By Frank Herbert Attack Civilization Die Indifference Succumbing

This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all of the stories about him and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack. By Frank Herbert Shrug Age Care Attack Heard

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? What is there around us that we cannot - By Frank Herbert Hear Fact Deaf Person Possess

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? By Frank Herbert Hear Fact Deaf Person Possess

Death makes a prophet's voice louder. By Frank Herbert Death Louder Makes Prophet Voice

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life. By Frank Herbert Life Stay Awake Night Adds

Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty? Jessica By Frank Herbert Jessica Cruelty Odd Misunderstand Hidden

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day. By Frank Herbert Blow Give Lamp Day Find

The real universe is always one step behind logic. By Frank Herbert Logic Real Universe Step

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility. By Frank Herbert Membership Conspiracy Army Frees Responsibility

He could close his eyes and recall the shouts of the crowds. So that is what they hope, he thought. And he remembered what the old Reverend Mother had said: Kwisatz Haderach. The memories touched his feelings of terrible purpose, shading this strange world By Frank Herbert Crowds Close Eyes Recall Shouts

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being. By Frank Herbert Love Mood Dynamic

We will never forgive and we will never forget. By Frank Herbert Forget Forgive

Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response - never to forgive and never to forget. By Frank Herbert Hittite Revenge Law Emphasized Restitution

It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities," Leto said. "This ... rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil. By Frank Herbert Leto Obscenities Lord Leads Selffulfilling

They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives. By Frank Herbert Lives Futile People Found Wanting

He looked, from behind, like a fleshless stick figure in overlarge black clothing, a caricature poised for stringy movement at the direction of a puppet master. Only By Frank Herbert Looked Clothing Master Fleshless Stick

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw. By Frank Herbert Flaw Felt Inability Grieve Terrible

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. By Frank Herbert Estimation History Misery Created Reformers

Facing your fears robs them of their power By Frank Herbert Facing Power Fears Robs

Fear is the mind-killer. By Frank Herbert Fear Mindkiller

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation By Frank Herbert Representation Creature Spent Life Creating

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying. By Frank Herbert Lying Accept Damned Things Explanations

I remember friends from wars all but we forgot. All of them distilled into each wound we caught. Those wounds are all painful places where we fought. Battles never left behind, ones we never sought. What is it that we spent and what was it we bought? By Frank Herbert Forgot Remember Friends Wars Caught

What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpretations, the legal casuistry, the precedents of convenience. You'll find the serenity, which is just another word for death. By Frank Herbert Law Serenity Find Control Filters

Don't sit with your back to any doors. By Frank Herbert Doors Sit Back

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches. By Frank Herbert Constantinople Patriarch Pope Excommunicated Churches

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see. By Frank Herbert Black Remembering Thought Blind Sounds

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed ... These things are so ancient within us ... that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies ... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking. By Frank Herbert Force Ancient Man Taking Giving

I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence. By Frank Herbert Profound Pattern Humans Deny Words

We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis. She By Frank Herbert Arrakis Guild Bribe Monstrous Payment

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. By Frank Herbert Absolute Power Absolutely Corruptible Corrupt

You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were. By Frank Herbert Man Child Seeking Seek Vain

Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. By Frank Herbert Selfhood Lives Flight Stable Head

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. By Frank Herbert Respect Morality Truth Close Basis

Each of us is the enemy [ ... ] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose. By Frank Herbert Enemy Lose Master

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!" By Frank Herbert Poseurs Criticism Poses Comments Work

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve. By Frank Herbert Caution Gliding Mediocrity Path Passionless

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure. By Frank Herbert Guilt Failure Starts Feeling

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood. By Frank Herbert Thicker Water Blood Politics

To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures. By Frank Herbert Degrading God Ultimately Boring Dreamcreatures

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create. By Frank Herbert Desires Canvas Future Remains Uncertain

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. By Frank Herbert Completely Escape Teachers Childhood Patterns

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. By Frank Herbert Terrify Person Banal Ordinary Illuminates

We shouldn't have tried to create new symbols," he said. We should've realized we weren't supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief, that we weren't supposed to stir up curiosity about God. We are daily confronted by the terrifying instability of all things human, yet we permit our religions to grow more rigid and controlled, more conforming and oppressive. What is this shadow across the highway of Divine Command? It is a warning that institutions endure, that symbols endure when their meaning is lost, that there is no summa of all attainable knowledge."Admission" of C.E.T. Chairman Toure Bomoko, in "Appendix II: The Religion of Dune By Frank Herbert Supposed Create God Symbols Admission

Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. By Frank Herbert Humans Things Place Live Belongs

Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame. By Frank Herbert Cowardice Civilisation Based Easy Civilize

Do you know what guerrillas often say? They claim that their rebellions are invulnerable to economic warfare because they have no economy, that they are parasitic on those they would overthrow. The fools merely fail to access the coin in which they must inevitably pay. The pattern is inexorable in its degenerative failures. You see it repeated in the systems of slavery, of welfare states, of caste-ridden religions, of socializing bureaucracies -- in any system in which creates and maintains dependencies. Too long a parasite and you cannot exist without a host. By Frank Herbert Guerrillas Economy Overthrow Claim Rebellions

Paul sat back. He had used the questions and hyperawareness to do what his mother called "registering" the person. He had Kynes now - tone of voice, each detail of face and gesture. By Frank Herbert Paul Back Registering Sat Called

must never submit to animals. By Frank Herbert Animals Submit

How would you like to live billions upon billions of lives?" Paul asked. "There's a fabric of legends for you! Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How By Frank Herbert Billions Live Lives Wisdom Paul

He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. By Frank Herbert Gesture Passed Loss Spice Crawler

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do." She hit a mark there right enough, Hawat thought. He nodded for Paul to continue. "She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men. By Frank Herbert Rule Paul Asked Hawat Commands

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses. By Frank Herbert Choam Commerce Directorate Unable Understand

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself. By Frank Herbert Killing Artistry Point Lacks Hold

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity By Frank Herbert Chameleon Identity Give Ability Blend

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. By Frank Herbert Die Man Retreats Cave Opening

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with. By Frank Herbert Good Companion Mind Dying

It is fate, Nayla thought. It is God's will. They were the same thing. A By Frank Herbert Nayla Fate Thought God Thing

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts. By Frank Herbert Ideas Dozen Dime Counts Execution

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties ... and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all. By Frank Herbert Riots Times Profoundly Revealing Comedy

From Hellstrom's Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter. This fixed the colony as the unit of natural selection and removed all previous limits on the amount of specialization (expressed as caste differences) that a colony could tolerate. It is clear that if we vertebrates can take the same route, our individual members with their vastly larger brains will become incomparably superior specialists. No other species will be able to stand against us, ever - not even the old human species from which we will evolve our new humans. By Frank Herbert Manual Hellstrom Hive Colony Species

To accept a little death is worse than death itself. By Frank Herbert Death Accept Worse

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. By Frank Herbert Seas Thought Grief Heavier Sands

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. By Frank Herbert Problems Scan Personal Encounter Things

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. By Frank Herbert Man Flesh Terrible Instant Enlightenment

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. By Frank Herbert Mistakes Show Completely Smooth Operation

Short-term expediency always fails in the long term. By Frank Herbert Shortterm Term Expediency Fails Long

What's your definition of sanity, Skipper?' 'The ability to swim,' said Sparrow. Ramsey felt a cold shock, as though he had been immersed suddenly in freezing water. He had to force himself to continue breathing normally. As though from a great distance, he heard Sparrow's voice: 'That means the sane person has to understand currents, has to know what's required in different waters.' Ramsey By Frank Herbert Skipper Sanity Sparrow Definition Ramsey

Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood. By Frank Herbert Love Mood Thing Cattle Making

But you invite ... ""I invite a bit of military nonsense.""That's what I ... ""Duncan, I am a teacher. Remember that. By repetition, I impress the lesson.""What lesson?" "The ultimately suicidal nature of military foolishness. By Frank Herbert Invite Duncan Military Nonsense Bit

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences. By Frank Herbert Limit Exists Force Powerful Apply

Religious institutions perpetuate a moral master-servant relationship. They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices! By Frank Herbert Religious Relationship Institutions Perpetuate Moral

Ambitions tend to Remain undisturbed by Realities. By Frank Herbert Realities Remain Ambitions Tend Undisturbed

You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned. By Frank Herbert Rule Learn Learned Ancestors

Survival is staying alive one breath at a time. p. 251 By Frank Herbert Survival Staying Alive Breath Time

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. By Frank Herbert Major Flaw Government Arise Fear

Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity. By Frank Herbert Moneo Laws Haul Tend Temporary

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza By Frank Herbert Participate Alma Taraza Life Mavis

The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable - slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized. By Frank Herbert Body Learning Interprets Pleasurable Slightly

Pride overcame Paul's fear. "You dare suggest a duke's son is an animal?" he demanded."Let us say I suggest you may be human," she said. "Steady! I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand can drive this needle into your neck before you escape me. By Frank Herbert