Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
submission
Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
race history invention
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.
writing
Money to a writer is time to write.
philosophy structure questioning
We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
voice prophet
Death makes a prophet's voice louder.
night add awake
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
dimensions eternity endless
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
war issues secret
Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? [...] failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.
war chaos form
War is the most readily available form of chaos.
ambition reality
Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.
order raw-materials chaos
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
court
Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.
eye saws matter
The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.
loyalty real greatness
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.