Frank Herbert Short Quotes

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Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

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History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

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The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

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When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

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The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

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Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

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The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

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Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

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Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

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Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

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What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

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The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.

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If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

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

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Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.

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The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

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The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences

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Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

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Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

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The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

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It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.

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Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

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Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

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Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

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What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

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