Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Silence is often the best thing to say.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Death makes a prophet's voice louder.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.
FRANK HERBERT, Heretics of Dune
