970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.

Madness in method, that's genius

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

Is evolution just another name for God?

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

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

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.