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It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.
FRANK HERBERT, God Emperor of Dune
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
FRANK HERBERT, Children of Dune
The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
FRANK HERBERT, Children of Dune
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
FRANK HERBERT, God Emperor of Dune
In all major socializing forces you will find an underlying movement to gain and maintain power through the use of words. From witch doctor to priest to bureaucrat it is all the same. A governed populace must be conditioned to accept power-words as actual things, to confuse the symbolized system with the tangible universe. In the maintenance of such a power structure, certain symbols are kept out of reach of common understanding--symbols such as those dealing with economic manipulation or those which define the local interpretation of sanity. Symbol-secrecy of this form leads to the development of fragmented sub-languages, each being a signal that its users are accumulating some form of power.
FRANK HERBERT, Children of Dune
The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.
FRANK HERBERT, Children of Dune
It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
FRANK HERBERT, God Emperor of Dune
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
Caution is the path to mediocrity.
FRANK HERBERT, God Emperor of Dune
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
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