“The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said. “Nothing about religion is simple.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be."… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.'… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I will not argue with the Fremen claims that they are divinely inspired to transmit a religious revelation. It is their concurrent… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“They were buffoons with barricaded eyes, their shoulders held in positions of immovable defense. Each position upon the great floor could be… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“We shouldn’t have tried to create new symbols,” he said. We should’ve realized we weren’t supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government? — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the " proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Men, finding no answers to the sunnan [ten thousand religious questions from the Shari-ah] now apply their own reasoning. All men seek… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort. They were… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
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