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
enemy allies
Enemies strengthn you. Allies weaken you.
technology people risk
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
rulers
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
path mediocrity caution
Caution is the path to mediocrity.
funny-love giving joy
You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
taken use victim
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
initiative
Beaurocracy destroys initiative.
pain humans human-beings
A human being can stand any amount of pain.
genius madness method
Madness in method, that's genius
accepting
What you cannot control, you must accept.
killers rabbits kind
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
time doors vision
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
well-known wells known
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
hands people one-day
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?