Religion and politics. Dune
Perhaps I should not have told the Baron to let this religion flourish where it will, even among the folk of pan and graben, he told himself. But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement become headlong -- faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late."
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. -from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by Princess Irulan
Frank Herbert. Dune 1963-1965
She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement become headlong -- faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late."
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. -from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by Princess Irulan
Frank Herbert. Dune 1963-1965