970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

What’s a gom jabbar?

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

Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe – a man to be trusted because the captain’s vices were known.

The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This has often been the approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists.

I never could bring myself to trust a traitor,” the Baron said. “Not even a traitor I created.

Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, “Anything.” Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.