970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.