Frank Herbert Quotes

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Frank Herbert

Profession : Writer

Birth : October 8, 1920

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

Frank Herbert

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Frank Herbert

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Frank Herbert

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Frank Herbert