Quotes about Freedom
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
— Frank Herbert
Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
— Frank Herbert
Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.
— Frank Herbert
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— Frank Herbert
Ve?ina ljudi nije dovoljno jaka za pronalaženje slobode u sebi.
— Frank Herbert
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
— Frank Herbert
Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
— Frank Herbert
What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that.
— Frank Herbert
I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.
— Frank Herbert
When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— Frank Herbert
one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone…animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct…the animal destroys and does not produce…animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual…
— Frank Herbert
The moment He set me free is the moment He captured me.
— Frank Viola