Frank Herbert Quotes

South Central is just who I am.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

No true and perfect human society can be conceived which is not governed by some supreme authority…. Do the sheep when they are all assembled together rule and guide the shepherd?

I know what hierarchy and discipline mean. Without those, we will never have order and progress.

Everybody's got somewhere they call home.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we find our sense of belonging, our sense of community, our very lives.

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.

The more tightly packed the group, the greater the need for strict social ranks and orders.

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

I am part of the demographic and I love it.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak, or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human beings. We need other human beings in order to be human. I am because other people are. A person is entitled to a stable community life, and the first of these communities is the family.

It's time to find someplace where I feel like it's home.

Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create a certain conditioning. He wants to make it a contract. Or he enters a church, or he enters a political party, or he enters into any club and he wants to be structured, he wants to know where he stands in the hierarchy, in what relationship. He wants to have an identity - that 'I am this.' He does not want to remain uncertain. And life is uncertain. Only death is certain.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.