Frank Herbert

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to read more

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.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my read more

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune, "Litany Against Fear", 1965.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.