Showing posts with label Frank Herbert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Herbert. Show all posts
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Quote Of The Day: History
History is a constant race between the invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Cowardice
Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Expression
Ideas imbedded in a language require that particular language for expression.
PS: Yes, "imbedded" is the word used in the book. Don't ask me why.
-- Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
PS: Yes, "imbedded" is the word used in the book. Don't ask me why.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Administration
The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Wealth
The wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Learning
...when you think you know something, that is the most perfect barrier against learning
Monday, June 29, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Motivation
Men must want to do things out of their own innermost drive. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
^civilization^corporation
^civilization^corporation
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Government
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon personal qualities of those who govern. The machine of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Fear
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
-- Litany Against Fear, Frank Herbert, Dune
Monday, February 16, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Time
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy".
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