“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. — 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
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
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
