Frank Herbert Quotes

Some people only speak of freedom of speech while they're out of power. Once they're in power, they're ruthless in suppressing the rights of others.

Sometimes it seems like America is the Christian and Israel is the little Jew they love in this fetishistic way. Like, you're my little sister and I'll kick anyone's ass that messes with you. But when we're alone and no one's looking I'll harass you.

You can be a control freak only when you have weak people around you.

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical.

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle.

Men in power have no opinions, but may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

I have read your proposed speech. Your argument is like that of the man who is accused of seduction and defends himself by explaining that he has committed rape.

A subject’s faults a subject may proclaim A monarch’s errors are forbidden game.

I think Trump is someone who appreciates and connects with people who hold their own and are strong individuals. I think he can smell weakness, and if you show him weakness, he exploits it, and he doesn't respect you.

Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.

The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she is a giant green tramp.

I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.