Quotes by Frank Herbert

A human being can stand any amout of pain. (Frank Herbert)

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. (Frank Herbert)

All governments eventually lean further and further towards aristocracy. (Frank Herbert)

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. (Frank Herbert)

Beaurocracy destroys initiative. (Frank Herbert)

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. (Frank Herbert)

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. (Frank Herbert)

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing. (Frank Herbert)

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. (Frank Herbert)

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. (Frank Herbert)