WIST Quotations

Herbert, Frank -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) American writer
(Attributed)

Herbert, Frank -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) American writer
(Attributed)

Herbert, Frank -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Beware of the Truth. If you find a truth it can demand that you make painful changes.

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) American writer
(Attributed)

Herbert, Frank -- Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)

Dave — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 00:19:31 +0000

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) American writer
Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)

Herbert, Frank -- Children of Dune

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

I’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe in is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) American writer
Children of Dune

Herbert, Frank -- Dune, Book 3 “The Prophet” (1965)

Dave — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:58:24 +0000

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong — faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.

Frank Herbert (1920-1986) American writer
Dune, Book 3 “The Prophet” (1965)
(Source)

Jessica, quoting a Bene Gesserit proverb.

In Appendix 2, there is reference to another Bene Gesserit teaching: "When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path."