970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

Los historiadores ejercen un gran poder, y algunos de ellos lo saben. Recrean el pasado, cambiándolo para que encaje con sus propias interpretaciones. De este modo, cambian también el futuro.

The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines," Leto said. "Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.

Behavioral engineering in all of its manifestations always degenerates into merciless manipulation. It reduces all (manipulators and manipulated alike) to a deadly "mass effect." The central assumption, that manipulation of individual personalities can achieve uniform behavioral responses, has been exposed as a lie by many species but never with more telling effect than by the Gowachin on Dosadi.— The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

Privilege becomes arrogance. Arrogance promotes injustice. The seeds of ruin blossom.

Dovrebbe esistere una scienza dell'infelicità. La gente ha bisogno di tempi difficili e di oppressione per sviluppare i propri muscoli psichici.

Here, they showed us the "Walden Fallacy" in ultimate foolishness, explaining: "Given any species which reproduces by genetic mingling such that every individual is a unique specimen, all attempts to impose a decision matrix based on assumed uniform behavior will prove lethal." — The Dosadi Papers, BuSab reference

He could see it stretching ahead of him, a time of relative quiet in a hidden sietch, a moment of peace between periods of violence.

A menudo es mejor observar lo que hace la gente e ignorar lo que dice. Las discordancias entre el comportamiento y las palabras son extremadamente reveladoras. La acción habla por sí misma.

Si los deseos fueran peces todos arrojaríamos nuestras redes.