970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

The dice cannot read their own spots.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.