Quote by Frank Herbert (1920-1986)

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

• 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.

• The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

• The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

• Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see.