Frank Herbert Quotes

Every government of the world has the seeds of its own destruction in itself.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.

The Turkish Empire has just committed suicide.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; an hour may lay it in the dust.

The greatest of all evils is a weak government.

… most republics through history have eventually collapsed, degenerated into tyranny, or were overthrown.

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

The status quo leads to self-destruction.

For the demise of the Latin monarch, he who will reign with help and support will burn a brilliant fire. The Republic's booty divided and its bold dream disappeared.

Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

The more things a government undertakes to do, the fewer things it can do completely. When the government tries to do everything it must do everything badly.

One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.

Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the contrary, our costly and valiant efforts have produced an outcome our government did not predict or intend-a failed state spinning out of control into anarchy and civil war.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast.

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.