Frank Herbert Quotes

Organizations in conflict quickly become like one another.

In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

This battle will decide who will rule Asia.

People are violent by nature. That’s why we rule the earth; we beat the crap out of everyone else.

I started to fight with the men. I raised my voice, and they started listening to me.

With shrinking resources, interest groups are pitted against each other.

Washington believes in Zero-Sum politics.

Mankind has conceived history as a series of battles; hitherto it has considered fighting as the main thing in life.

Sisters, to me, are fascinating because it is a unique connection of the coming together of connection and competition. The fact that you have these age differences is a built-in power struggle, and the fact that you're all trying to get attention and resources from the same parents creates competition.

Leaders of the various Iraqi elements will likely have their own militias, and there will be endless rounds of brinkmanship on the road to post-Islamic State boundaries, governing structures, and distribution of power and resources.

While conflicts have expanded and deepened and transformed, actors have transformed, and humanitarian assistance is transforming. Protection work is transforming and taking on another character.

If two irreconcilable elements are struggling with each other, the solution lies in force. There has never been any other solution in history, and there never will be.

I want the tigard. (Varyk) And I want you to leave. Guess who’s going to win this argument? And in case you’re even denser than you appear, it’s not you. (Dev)

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.