Quotes about Power
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
This is the fallacy of power: ultimately, it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
— Frank Herbert
It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.
— Frank Herbert
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
— Frank Herbert
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? —Bene
— Frank Herbert
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
— Frank Herbert
governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions.
— Frank Herbert
Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.
— Frank Herbert
Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?
— Frank Herbert
They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.
— Frank Herbert
While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.
— Frank Herbert
Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
— Frank Herbert