970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

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.

As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.

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.

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

Soltanto i progressisti pensano davvero. Soltanto i progressisti sono intellettuali. Soltanto i progressisti capiscono i bisogni dei loro simili.Quanta cattiveria si annidava in quella parola!, pensò Odrade. Quanto ego segreto che esigeva di sentirsi superiore.

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.

Never follow a leader without asking your own questions.

Hard tasks need hard ways.