Frank Herbert Violence Quotations

The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.