Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert

"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."
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"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."
Frank Herbert Children of Dune
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"Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?"
Frank Herbert Dune Messiah
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"Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?"
Frank Herbert Heretics of Dune
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"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."
Frank Herbert Children of Dune
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"It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past."
Frank Herbert God Emperor of Dune
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"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."
Frank Herbert Heretics of Dune
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"Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die."
Frank Herbert Dune
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"Give as few orders as possible, his father had told him once long ago. Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject."
Frank Herbert Dune
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"“Give as few orders as possible, his father had told him once long ago. Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”"
Frank Herbert Dune
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"“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.”"
Frank Herbert Dune
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"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 have always known."
Frank Herbert Dune
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"“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”"
Frank Herbert God Emperor of Dune
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"Education is no substitute for intelligence."
Frank Herbert
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"Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new."
Frank Herbert Dune
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"motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
Frank Herbert
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"“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.”"
Frank Herbert Dune
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"“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.- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”"
Frank Herbert Children of Dune
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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
Frank Herbert
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"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."
Frank Herbert
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"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
Frank Herbert
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