970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.