Quotes About Gesserit

#1. The expectations of civilized society should afford all the protection a person needs. But that armor is rendered as thin as a tissue when one is dealing with the uncivilized. -Bene Gesserit Archives

Brian Herbert

#2. If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken (Bene Gesserit axiom).

Frank Herbert

#3. Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda

Frank Herbert

#4. You must teach me someday how you do that," he said, "the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing." "It's a female thing," she said.

Frank Herbert

#5. There's a Bene Gesserit saying," she said. "You have sayings for everything!" he protested. "You'll like this one," she said. "It goes: 'Do not count a human dead until you've seen his body. And even then you can make a mistake.

Frank Herbert

#6. We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

Frank Herbert

#7. Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.

Frank Herbert

#8. We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.

Frank Herbert

#9. Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.

Frank Herbert

#10. The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. - Bene Gesserit Precept I

Brian Herbert

#11. The conventional wisdom of fandom is that you must give your fans anything they want. But I've never felt that that's a healthy attitude - and that comes from being a Star Wars fan.

DJ Shadow

#12. You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!

Nikolai Gogol

#13. Simply put, no society can truly flourish if it stifles the dreams and productivity of half its population. Happily, I see evidence all over the world that women are gaining social and economic power that they never had before. This is good news ...

William J. Clinton

#14. The way our business is, the way it works out, we end up being residents of everywhere.

Don Johnson

#15. Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

Frank Herbert

#16. You are loved with an everlasting love. And underneath are the everlasting arms.

Elisabeth Elliot

#17. Sam Keen points out that Zen masters spend years to reach an enlightenment that every natural child already knows - the total incarnation of sleeping when you're tired and eating when you're hungry. What irony that this state of Zen-like bliss is programmatically and systematically destroyed.

John Bradshaw

#18. All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven't been made yet.

Raegan Butcher

#19. I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.

Phyllis Diller