Фрэнк Герберт: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 5)

“Bless the Maker and His water.
Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
May He keep the world for His people.”

“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.”

“You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

“You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.”

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.”

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

“Law is the ultimate science.”

“There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.”

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”

“Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.”

“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”

“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.”

“Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.”

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”

“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”

“When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles”

“The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.”

“Emotions are the curse of logic.”

“What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?”