Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

— Frank Herbert

CHAM is business and business follows profits.

— Frank Herbert

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

— Frank Herbert

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

— Frank Herbert

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

— Frank Herbert

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

— Frank Herbert

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

— Frank Herbert

Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

— Frank Herbert

Deceit is a tool of statecraft," Ireland agreed." There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover," Paul said.

— Frank Herbert

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

— Frank Herbert