Frank Herbert

“He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?”

“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

“Humans are almost always lonely.”

“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”

“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”

“He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.”

“Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me the most. I distrust extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who from such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner.”

“Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.”

“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.”

“He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.”

“Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.”

“There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.”

“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.”

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”

“Life produces a different taste each time you take it.”

“I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?”

“No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.”

“When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.”

“Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”