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
war power-corrupts magnet
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.
teaching past history
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
time looks consciousness
Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
understanding environment function
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences
war sea roots
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
believe want knows
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
believe differences fool
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
mistake taken thinking
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.
army police enemy
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.
children educational dull
Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
believe past return
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
believe want proof
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
eye rely senses
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
lonely humanity humans
Humans are almost always lonely.