When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

- Frank Herbert

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and the…

- Frank Herbert

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

- Frank Herbert

The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power struc…

- Frank Herbert

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

- Frank Herbert

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom …

- Frank Herbert

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

- Frank Herbert

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

- Frank Herbert

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.

- Frank Herbert