Quotes about Control
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
She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul
- Frank Herbert
Command must always look confident, he thought. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it.
- Frank Herbert
If you think you own something, that's like walking on quicksand.
- Frank Herbert
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. The uncertain rabbits had to be exposed, made to run for their burrows. Else how could you control them and breed them?
- Frank Herbert
The man without emotions is the one to fear. But deep emotions…ah, now, those can be bent to your needs.
- Frank Herbert
Understand yourself, Piter. You want her because she was a Duke's woman, a symbol of his power—beautiful, useful, exquisitely trained for her role.
- Frank Herbert