Quotes about Control
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.
— Frank Herbert
One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
— Frank Herbert
To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
— Frank Herbert
All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.
— Frank Herbert
Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
— Frank Herbert
Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!
— Frank Herbert
I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
— Frank Herbert
Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.
— Frank Herbert
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— Frank Herbert
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
— Frank Herbert
Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?
— Frank Herbert
You should fear me, Mother. I am the Kwisatz Haderach." Jessica
— Frank Herbert