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
sleep new-experiences needs
A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.
motivational inspiring leadership
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
jobs police kind
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.
suffering purpose empires
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
religious honesty successful
These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness
strong firsts emotion
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.
lonely simple civilization
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.
ignorance dangerous
It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.
government long tendencies
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
ideas want way
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.