970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites – conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

It is another kind of marriage – the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat’s explanation and his excuse.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? –.

People don’t vote. Instinct tells them it’s useless.

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.

Knowing where the trap is – that’s the first step in evading it.

It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He.

I’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?