970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

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.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

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

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.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.