Frank Herbert Quotes

The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominance.

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet.

The effect of dominance is not always the result of an intention to dominate.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

Do you want power over something? Be more nearly real than it.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.

To have command is to have all the power you will ever need. To have all the power you will ever need, is to have the world in the palm of you hand.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

To know is to control.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

If you were to come to Minnesota, I could have you locked up like that. That's power.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Power has no limits.