Frank Herbert Quotes

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

We will never forgive and we will never forget.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

It could be a work of art among vendettas

Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes.