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.
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.
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.
peace war impossible
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.
war chaos form
War is the most readily available form of chaos.
temptation warning safe
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
war government personality
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
pursuit tool
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
american-writer attempt cannot darkness knowing seeing truth
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
myth religion terrors uncertain
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
life trust people
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
basic effective fallacy greater lesson limited meet power ultimately universe
This is the fallacy of power: ultimately it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
funny confused animal
Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.
lying path danger
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.