Frank Herbert Quotes

Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.

Well, when you look at a lot of science fiction novels they're asking questions about power. There are questions about what it means to have power and what are the long-term consequences of power.

This battle will decide who will rule Asia.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

To me, the movie is about power.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

Power is as power does.

Power is not a means; it is an end.

Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.

Men in power are always interested in greater power.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Conquest is easy. Control is not.

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.

Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

I like being powerful. I hope it doesn't go to my head. If somebody's going to have it, it might just as soon be me. There's always power, and it's just a matter of in whose hands it falls.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

When we speak of power, we mean man's control over the minds and actions of other men. By political power we refer to the mutual relations of control among the holders of public authority and between the latter and the people at large.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by such word-play. The power which establishes a state is violence; the power which maintains it is violence; the power which eventually overthrows it is violence. Call an elephant a rabbit only if it gives you comfort to feel that you are about to be trampled to death by a rabbit.