970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

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

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.