21 Quotes by Frank Herbert about religion
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
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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.
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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
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They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
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Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
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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.
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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
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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 testing our universe.
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In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
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