Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics accept you as god-inspired. This has long been the barrier to science assuming a mantle of divine revelation. Science is so obviously man-made. Fanatics (and many are fanatic on one subject or another) must know where you stand, but more important, must recognise who whispers in your ear." - Missionaria Protectiva, Primary Teaching.
Frank HerbertTag: bene-gesserit dune
The Proximity of a Desirable Thing Tempts One to Overindulgence. On That Path Lies Danger.
Frank HerbertIt is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Frank HerbertTag: thoughtful
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
Frank HerbertThey were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.
Frank HerbertParadise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.
Frank HerbertBut it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
Frank HerbertTag: religion
They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
Frank HerbertTag: religion
Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.
Frank HerbertTag: leadership
Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank HerbertTag: duke-leto-atreides
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