When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them
Frank HerbertIn 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
Frank HerbertIt is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank HerbertBeyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.
Frank Herbert