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Quotes from Dune Genesis — Frank Herbert

1920–1986 United States

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Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be.

Dune Genesis (1980)

No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity.

Dune Genesis (1980)

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Dune Genesis (1980)

It is the systems themselves that I see as dangerous.

Dune Genesis (1980)

I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal.

Dune Genesis (1980)

It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.

Dune Genesis (1980)

If a leader cannot admit mistakes, these mistakes will be hidden. Who says our leaders must be perfect? Where do they learn this?

Dune Genesis (1980)

Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

Dune Genesis (1980)

The flaw must lie in our methods of description, in languages, in social networks of meaning, in moral structures, and in philosophies and religions — all of which convey implicit limits where no limits exist.

Dune Genesis (1980)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frank Herbert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.