{"author":"Frank Herbert","author_id":"Frank+Herbert","total_quotes":209,"quotes":[{"text":"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["wise","think","you "],"id":1497,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["technocracy","technology"],"id":2601,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["flexibility","hypocrisy","self-discipline"],"id":4468,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called 'spannungsbogen' -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["desire","restraint"],"id":9496,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["anarchy","ity","coercion","freedom","government","libertarian","liberty","peace","power","psychopath","regime","society","state","statism","voluntaryism"],"id":12303,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["death","legacy","life","muad-dib","philosophy","truth","wisdom"],"id":13009,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.“Nothing about religion is simple.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["fremen","nothing","practical","religion","simple"],"id":15061,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["growth","resource-economics"],"id":18915,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["dune","free-will","god","philosophy"],"id":27468,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"},{"text":"A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.","author":"Frank Herbert","tags":["animals","dune"],"id":35030,"author_id":"Frank+Herbert"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":209,"pages":21,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}