Frank Herbert Quotes

Instead of man to love, we have a man-god to worship . From being the example of devotion, he is its object; the religion of Christ ended with his life , and left us instead but the Christian religion.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

When men make gods, there is no God!

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Among the most important such false gods in our time is the United Nations, which has become a new religion that is worshipped to the exclusion of God… It issues documents and statements that openly contradict Islamic belief, such as International Declaration for Human Rights, considering all religions are equal, and considering that the destruction of the statues constitutes a crime.

If you're too confident in assuming that America's and God's purposes are one, you tiptoe toward idolatry.

Pride goes before destruction.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace.

They that soar too high, often fall hard.

In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case.

Arrogance is a weed which grows upon a dunghill; it is from the rankness of the soil that she has her height and spreadings: witness, clowns, fools, and fellows, who from nothing, are lifted up some few steps on fortune's ladder: where, seeing the glorious representment of honour above them, they are so eager to embrace it, that they strive to leap thither at once, and by over-reaching themselves in the way, they fail of the end, and fall.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

The higher they fly the harder they fall.

Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of bursting. The higher you climb, the further you have to fall’ - Lynette McGregor

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

The higher I get the lower I sink.

First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.