Frank Herbert Balance Quotations

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

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.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

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