Frank Herbert - Religion Quotes

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What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

Frank Herbert
Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

Frank Herbert
No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity.
But this could imply that you can cut across linear time, open it like a ripe fruit, and see consequential connections. You could be prescient, predict accurately. Predestination and paradox once more.
The flaw must lie in our methods of description, in languages, in social networks of meaning, in moral structures, and in philosophies and religions — all of which convey implicit limits where no limits exist. Paul Muad'Dib, after all, says this time after time throughout Dune.

Frank Herbert
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way.

Frank Herbert
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Frank Herbert
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Frank Herbert
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Frank Herbert
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko

Frank Herbert
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Frank Herbert