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Frank Herbert Quotes

Frank Herbert quotes about kindness

American Writer October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986

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Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly." Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from 'Songs of Muad'Dib Frank Herbert
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity. Frank Herbert
I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved savage decisions, a kind of wanton brutality which civilized humankind works very hard to suppress. What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction? -The Stolen... Frank Herbert
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert quote: "Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts..."
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance. Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert quote: "A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most..."
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind. Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert quote: "Kindness is the beginning of cruelty."
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. Frank Herbert

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