The revolutionary environmentalists twist science to get what they want, saying they’re using the “best available science” to determine public policy, when in fact these are code words for cherry picking from a repertoire of biased science studies. Arguing with the Greenies’ faulty science is like shouting into the wind, because they will disregard or minimize evidence that disputes any position they are trying to assert. Your points will be ignored, and you will be demonized.

— Brian Herbert

Brian Herbert Quotes

Jool Noret, we admire you. You are the scourge of Omnius.” “I am merely doing my job.

— Brian Herbert

My father lied to me! He distorted the events, taking credit, hiding the extent of the brutality and suffering – even Omnius knew it. On the other hand, Serena had told him the truth.

— Brian Herbert

Arrakis is ours because we have taken it,” Selim announced. “We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intruders.

— Brian Herbert

Tell her nothing is impossible. Tell her that love is what separates humans from other living creatures, not hatred. Not violence –.

— Brian Herbert

I can envision calculations all the way to infinity,” she said, as if in a trance. “I don’t have to write them down.

— Brian Herbert

I have seen into the heart of the universe.

— Brian Herbert

Consciousness and logic are not reliable standards. – COGITORS, Fundamental Postulate.

— Brian Herbert

No matter the challenge, his people knew how to endure.

— Brian Herbert

My child, human love is an infinite resource. No matter how many times it is expended, whether stolen or given away, love can grow again – like a flower from a bulb – and fill your heart.

— Brian Herbert

Do you know about the horrors during the Time of Titans? Or the Hrethgir Rebellions?” “I’ve read my father’s memoirs in great detail – ” “I don’t mean Agamemnon’s propaganda. Have you learned the real history?

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I intend to create a new work of art, all my own. A still life, of sorts. You three will be vital parts of the process. Rejoice in your good fortune.” In the sterile environment of the laboratory, with the cold assistance of his personal robot guards, Erasmus proceeded to vivisect the trio of victims, oblivious to their screams. “I want to get to the heart of the matter,” he quipped, “the lifeblood of it.

— Brian Herbert

I will take their ridiculous peace and shove it down their cold metal throats.

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You will have to rebuild an entire city.” Xavier looked at Rhengalid with little sympathy. “But you can do that only because you are alive and free.

— Brian Herbert

It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. – GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It.

— Brian Herbert

The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers,” her mother had once told her. “But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

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Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he’d been taught all his life. “I am the pinnacle of humanity – a trustee of Omnius, the son of General Agamemnon.

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So I have failed you?” “Not at all. Your human frailties are not your fault.

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Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.

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Seurat’s flowmetal face gleamed in the lights from his update ship’s cockpit. “Then I regret having been such an excellent teacher.

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But our long struggle is held together by the slender threads of heroes and myths.

— Brian Herbert
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