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
life trust people
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
dirty people leave-me-alone
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!
book people needs
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
self people want
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko
hard-times psychics people
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib
attitude giving people
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
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.
people leader important
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
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?
people reason knows
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
lying people reason
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
responsibility army people
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
people useless vote
People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.
people too-much chaos
You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.