"Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testi...
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
~ Frank Herbert ~
Photo by Ákos Szabó
Photo by Ian Turnell
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
More Frank Herbert quotes
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the co...
"I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads...
"I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messia...
"I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else...
"When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and fa...
"The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.“Nothing about religion is simple.
"Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
"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 ...
"Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
"They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
"Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you c...
"Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely...
"My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence a...
"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.