Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
Frank HerbertIf you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Frank HerbertWhat do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Frank HerbertTag: muad-dib princess-irulan
The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
Frank HerbertTag: writing
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank HerbertTag: life power action rule improve lives ruling-government
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.
Frank HerbertHe who controls the spice controls the universe.
Frank HerbertTag: economics science-fiction spice commodity supply-chain
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.
Frank HerbertTag: dune
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
Frank HerbertBehold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work.
Frank HerbertTag: epigram 1975 gurney-halleck
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