Quote

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Frank Herbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frank Herbert
Age: 65 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 8
Died: 1986
Died: February 11
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Tacoma
Washington
Frank Patrick Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
Franklin Herbert
Franklin Patrick Herbert
Jr.
Allies
Enemies
Stronger
Enemy
Make
Weaker

More quotes by Frank Herbert

Image
People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.
Frank Herbert
Image
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Frank Herbert
Image
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
Frank Herbert
Image
There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.
Frank Herbert
Image
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
Frank Herbert
Image
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
Frank Herbert
Image
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.
Frank Herbert
Image
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
Frank Herbert
Image
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
Frank Herbert
Image
A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.
Frank Herbert
Image
the sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
Image
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Frank Herbert
Image
Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.
Frank Herbert
Image
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.
Frank Herbert
Image
The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.
Frank Herbert
Image
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny, Paul said. They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.
Frank Herbert
Image
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.
Frank Herbert
Image
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
Frank Herbert
Image
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
Frank Herbert
Image
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
Frank Herbert