970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

All rebels are closet aristocrats. That’s why I can convert them so easily.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

Once human beings realize something can be done, they’re not satisfied until they’ve done it.

Peace demands solutions, but we never reach living solutions; we only work toward them. A fixed solution is, by definition, a dead solution. The trouble with peace is that it tends to punish mistakes instead of rewarding brilliance. –.

Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is ‘Thou shalt not question!

The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even exist. –.

Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she’ll live as less than a concubine – never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she’s bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine – history will call us wives.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It’s gone, but we remain.

A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor – we come for you!