Brian Herbert Quotes

A winner has more skills than a loser," Vor said, "no matter how you define the competition.
Brian Herbert
But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they do not understand.
Brian Herbert
In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.
Brian Herbert
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
Brian Herbert
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we refuse to change.
Brian Herbert
As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take a chance you will survive the ordeal and make something significant of your life?..." p330
Brian Herbert
With a smile of grim satisfaction, he bellowed his call. And the rebels surged forward in an act that would be remembered for ten thousand years.
Brian Herbert
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
Brian Herbert
Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.
Brian Herbert
It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.
Brian Herbert
No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
Brian Herbert
If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.
Brian Herbert
We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions. A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction, can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality, including our gods.
Brian Herbert
The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.
Brian Herbert
Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
Brian Herbert
Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.
Brian Herbert