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Best 180 Quotes by Frank Herbert – Page 5 of 6

Dune Quotes

“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”

Dune

“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.”

Dune

“What is the son but an extension of the father?”

Dune

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”

Dune

“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power.”

Dune

“You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard for those who come after.”

Dune

Dune Genesis Quotes

“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.”

Dune Genesis

“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.”

Dune Genesis

Dune Messiah Quotes

“An offer is only as good as the real thing it buys.’”

Dune Messiah

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

Dune Messiah

“Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”

Dune Messiah

“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.”

Dune Messiah

“Four things cannot be hidden — love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.”

Dune Messiah

“Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”

Dune Messiah

“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”

Dune Messiah

“Only gods can safely risk perfection... it's a dangerous thing for a man.”

Dune Messiah

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“The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.”


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“Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality and fall.”

Dune Messiah

“Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.”

Dune Messiah

“The dice cannot read their own spots.”

Dune Messiah

“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.”

Dune Messiah

“To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.”

Dune Messiah

“Truth suffers from too much analysis.”

Dune Messiah

“Was it defeat to choose a lesser evil?”

Dune Messiah

“When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.”

Dune Messiah

“Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.”

Dune Messiah

God Emperor of Dune Quotes

“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”

God Emperor of Dune

“Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken you.”

God Emperor of Dune

“Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.”

God Emperor of Dune

“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.”

God Emperor of Dune

“If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.”

God Emperor of Dune

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“A man wants his virility regarded. A woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation.”


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