"To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even y… - Frank Herbert

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things. We must get together. The best thing humans can have going for them is each other. We have each other. We must reject everything which humiliates us. Humans are not objects of consumption. We must develop an absolute priority of humans ahead of profit — any humans ahead of any profit. Then we will survive. … Together.

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

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.