Sand and Spice

Fremen                           
                 "They compose poems to their knives. Their women are as fierce as the men. Even Fremen children are violent and dangerous."[23]p.53
                 "There was a thick welling of blood that stopped almost immediately. Ultrafast coagulation (...) A moisture conserving mutation?"[23]p.71
                  "Duncan Idaho says they're to be admired."[23]p.104
                  "All seem to give their allegiance to someone called Liet." [23]p.10
                   "It was said that desert men wore a belted sash into which they tucked small necessities"[23]p.137
                  "there was an offhand attitude toward killing (...) guessed that this was a Fremen quality.[23]p.160
                  "The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity,(...) They say: 'Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.' "                                   [23]p.160
                  " He deliberately sacrificed himself to get that carrier. Great Mother! What are these Fremen?"[23]p.254
                  "two squares of gauze (...)  fixed one around Jessica's neck beneath her hood, fitted the other around Paul's neck in the same                                                 way."Now you wear the kerchief of the bakka (...) If we become separated, you will be recognized as belonging to Stilgar's sietch.                                       [23]p.254 "brightened the touch of green fabric at his neck"[23]p.360 the only thing i can think of this could be is his own kerchief, sietch                   colour is green, this is also one of house Atreides colours (green, red and black)
                   "My son's been tested with the gom jabbar!" In the stillness that followed, she knew she had struck to the heart of them."[23]p.331 it                                    also shows that the Fremen were familiar with the practice.
                   "We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites" [23]p.335
                   "what is it you do to the face of Arrakis that must not be seen? We change it (...) to make it fit for human life. Our generation will not                                see it, nor our children nor our children's children nor the grandchildren of their children . . . but it will come. (...) Open water and tall                            green plants and people walking freely without still-suits. So that's the dream of this Liet-Kynes,"[23]p.336
                   "There are those among my young men who have reached the age of wild spirits,"[23]p.338
                   "but she sensed wild changes here . . . as though someone had been in among these Fremen and capitalized on the Missionaria                                          Protectiva's imprint."[23]p.339
                   "Among our people, we ride the maker at the age of twelve. You are more than six years beyond that age"[23]p.448
                   "the distinctive acrid furry odour of a Fremen sietch that she had come to associate with a sense of security.[23]p.452
                   ""Seven of you are dead for two of us. Three for one. Pretty good against Sardaukar, eh?".[23]p.485
                   "but that's not enough with these people. They've good insulation against vocal control. He must catch them also with logic."                                                  [23]p.492  In reference to the voice.
                    "No man arrived on Arrakis without a full dossier finding its way into the Fremen strongholds."[23]p.566 shows a good intelligence                                   network in action.
                    "My soul had four gates and I knew them all."[28]p.42
                       "the man to make the golden flower blossom in the night."[28]p.43 in ref to Paul
                 
                   Quotes in relation to water.
                   "There's little to tell them from the folk of the graben and sink. They all wear those great flowing robes. And they stink to  heaven in any                            closed space. It's from those suits they wear, call them 'still-suits', that reclaim the body's own water."[23]p.43
                   "all of a man's water, ultimately, belongs to his people, to his tribe (...)  All water's precious there, and the human body is composed of                              some seventy per cent water by weight. "[23]p.163
                   " But you still have not made the water decision or put it to your wounded."[23]p.246 the Fremen are a direct and blunt people with ways                      that seem hard or cruel but they are in turn shaped by their environment. here the Fremen is enquiring you have men who will not make                      it, you need to make a decision on the water they contain so the others might survive, a harsh reality indeed. 
                   "We know the rites. A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe."[23]p.251
                   "It's the rule. The flesh belongs to the person, but his water belongs to the tribe . . . except in the combat."[23]p.358
                   "It's time to seal off this opening, to permit relaxation of stillsuit discipline."[23]p.337
                   " property of the Sayyadina and will be repaid in the sietch at field rates less pack fees."(...) "What is the repayment at field                                                    rates?"(...)"Ten for one," Stilgar said. [23]p.356
                   "Usul gives moisture to the dead!""[23]p.362
                   "We have more than thirty-eight million decalitres here,"[23]p.367  (380,000,000 litres), ""It is greater than treasure. We have                                        thousands of such caches."[23]p.367 Min (760,000,000,000 litres minimum) (olympic swimming pool = 2,500,000 litres so they had in                        that one catch enough to fill 152 olympic sized swimming pools and 304,000 pools worth minimum elsewhere)

                   Quotes in relation to Crysknife.
                   "you've sheathed that blade unblooded."With a gasp... wailing: "Take the water of my life!"[23]p.71 , the Fremen are obviously                                              superstitious to the point of being Zealots
                   "Who sees that knife must be cleansed or slain!"[23]p.72 ,"The uncleansed who have seen a crysknife may not leave Arrakis                                                  alive. "[23]p.72 ,again a huge significance placed on the crysknife and its place in Fremen beliefs.
                   "why shouldn't we unsheath this blade? (...)  You observed the customs of cleanliness and honour among us. I would permit                                                  you to see the blade of the man you befriended. (...) But I do not know these others. Would you have them defile an                                                                  honourable weapon? (...) Would you permit me to see this blade? I'll permit you to earn the right to unsheath it, (...) I remind                                              you this is the blade of one who befriended you. (...)  It is said that the Duke Leto Atreides rules with the consent of the                                                            governed, (...) Thus I must tell you the way it is with us: a certain responsibility falls on those who have seen a crysknife (...)                                                  They are ours. They may never leave Arrakis without our consent."[23]p.113

                   Quotes in relation to Customes.
                   "I don't even have to wear my stillsuit here? (...) And me not even dead!"[23]p.69 
                   "I must cleanse the way between us. You've put a water burden on me that I'm not sure I care to support. But we Fremen                                                        pay our debts, be they black debts or white debts"[23]p.86
                   " the table, spat on its polished surface.(...) "We thank you, Stilgar, for the gift of your body's moisture. We accept it in the                                                      spirit with which it is given." And Idaho spat on the table (...)  Remember how precious water is here, Sire. That was a token                                                  of respect."[23]p.113
                   "keeps the crysknife he holds as a mark of his allegiance to us. He must be cleansed (...) the rites observed, (...)  He will be                                                      Fremen and soldier of the Atreides. There is precedent for this: Liet serves two masters."[23]p.114
                   "Bless the Maker and His water (...) Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for                          His people."[23]p.148
                   Kynes said; "When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that                                    place." [23]p.150
                   "Fremen don't like to say no," Idaho had told him once.[23]p.245
                   "It is the rule, Istislah, in the general interest"[23]p.324
                   "When we slip into the villages and towns we must mask our origin, blend with the pan and graben folk," Stilgar said. "We carry no                                  weapons, for the crysknife is sacred."[23]p.325
                   "To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise," (...)  He touched his lips with his left hand,"[23]p.330
                   "Women among us are not taken against their will"[23]p.337
                   "I order the full ceremony. Jamis was our companion and brother of the Ichwan Bedwine. There shall be no turning away without the                              respect due one who proved our fortune by his tahaddi-challenge. I invoke the rite . . . at sunset when the dark shall cover him."                                          [23]p.356
                   "linked up a prescient memory: water-counters offered to a woman, courtship ritual."[23]p.365
                   "Usul, it's our way that you've now the responsibility for Jamis' woman here and for his two sons. His yali . . . his quarters, are yours.                                His coffee service is yours . . . and this, his woman. (...) Someone whispered: "There's work to do. Say how you accept her." (...) "Do you                            accept Harah as woman or servant?"(...) "If I accept her as servant, may I yet change my mind at a later time?" "You'd have a year to                                    change your decision," Stilgar said. "After that, she's a free woman to choose as she wishes . . . or you could free her to choose for                                        herself at any time. But she's your responsibility, no matter what, for one year . . . and you'll always share some responsibility for the                                sons of Jamis.""I accept her as servant," Paul said.[23]p.395
                   "In the time of mourning, I'll mourn him.""[23]p.397
                   " a green kerchief had been tied (...) Green for mourning,"[23]p.403
                   "Let them have their orgy, (...) They've little enough pleasure out of living."[23]p.412 in reference to the sietch partaking in the altered                            water of life.
                   "that highest Fremen compliment: "Your plan worked, Muad'Dib." [23]p.444
                   "A faint tinkling-drumming-slapping penetrated to the resting chamber. Jessica knew it for a birth celebration,"[23]p.452
                   "It was not yet time for the nightly prayer of parting. (...)  ceremony that mourned the slave raids of Poritrin, Bela Tegeuse, Rossak, and                          Harmonthep."[23]p.452
                   "and he stopped crying. Everyone knows a Fremen baby must get his crying done at birth, if he's in sietch because he can never cry                                    again lest he betray us on hajr."[23]p.455
                   "Here a leader took the reins from the dead hands of his predecessor, or slew among the strongest of his tribe if a leader died in the                                   desert. Stilgar had risen to be a naib in that way."[23]p.469
                  "one examined the outer corners of her whiteless eyes, noting the lines there: "sandtracks," the Fremen of the desert called them."                                  [28]p.24
                       "There were three cups: one for each drinker and one for all the former owners."[28]p.25
                       "Fremen women had shared their men for thousands of years -- not always in peace, but with a way of making the fact non-                                           destructive. " [28]p.28
                        ""It's true that the tribes have revived the old rites and the blood sacrifices,"[28]p.34
                        "No woman of the people will have him thus."[28]p.39 no fremen woman a blind fremen walks into the desert as hes now a liablity to the                        sietch.
                     "knowledge of the Fremen orgies which were ignited by spice-beer."[28]p.40
                        "my ancestors sacrificed virgins to Shai-hulud . . . before Liet-Kynes made us stop"[28]p.42
                    

                   Quotes in relation to Population
                      "to the new Fremen scum along the desert's edge."[23]p.33
                   The Fremen were considered only to a few in number and not a real threat."except for the few mongrel Fremen hiding in the                                                skirts of the desert"[23]p.33
                   "Take those Fremen (...) the renegade people of the desert. By first-approximation analysis, I can tell you there're many, many                                              more of them than the Imperium suspects (. . .) they hate Harkonnen's with a bloody passion."[23]p.45
                   "From food processing and other evidence (...) consisted of some ten thousand people, all told. Their leader said he ruled a                                                    sietch of two thousand hearths." [23]p.104
                   "The odour of the place assailed him: unwashed bodies, distillate esters of reclaimed wastes, everywhere the sour effluvia of humanity                             with, over it all, a turbulence of spice and spice-like harmonics."  [23]p.393
                    "There were at least ten thousand people on the rock floor now. "[23]p.402 ref 'great hall ' sietch Tabr  this was for lady Jessica rite of                                 passage to becoming a mother superior, this would be a major social and religiose event and as such i feel anyone who could be there                               would be, so 10K people probably represents the vast majority of the sietchies community. (a later comment made this 20K)
                    "I gave you Duncan Idaho's head count on the sietch he visited," Hawat said. "It all fits. If they had just two hundred and fifty such                                     sietch communities, their population would be about five million. My best estimate is that they had at least twice that many                                                 communities. You scatter your population on such a planet.""Ten million?"[23]p.402 the maths checks out with the 20K turning up for                           Jessica's reverend mother ritual, however i get the impression that Stilgar's sietch was one of the more established ones,  with some                                 sietchies being smaller, maybe bigger? but i have no information to confirm anything like this atm. 
                    "Here a leader took the reins from the dead hands of his predecessor, or slew among the strongest of his tribe if a leader died in the                                 desert. Stilgar had risen to be a naib in that way."
                   

                    Quotes in relation to Technology
                    "Idaho saw no evidence of shield equipment at the sietch."[23]p.108
                    "Fremen attitude toward shields (...) they were mostly amused by them."[23]p.109 
                    "the Fremen appear more and more to be the allies we need. They're waiting now to see if they can trust us, but they appear to be                                       dealing openly. They've sent us a gift, still-suits of their own manufacture (...) maps of certain desert areas surrounding strong-points                           the Harkonnen's left behind (...) Their intelligence reports have proved completely reliable... They've also sent some incidental things                               jewellery for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals (...) There appears to be no trickery."[23]p.104 
                    "The design and manufacture of these still-suits bespeaks a high degree of sophistication(...) I may show you a sietch factory,"  [23]p.134                       "Think of all these special-application Fremen machines. They show unrivalled sophistication. Admit it. The culture that made these                                 things betrays depths no one suspected."[23]p.225 
                    "Follow the arrows like that one on the floor. They'll be extinguished by your passage."  [23]p.263  nice trick..."seeing it go black as they                       touched it"[23]p.263
                    " into the pool through a flow-meter. The meter was a round gray eye above the pool's rim. She saw its glowing pointer move as the                                   water flowed through it, saw the pointer stop at thirty-three litres, seven and three-thirty-seconds drachms. Superb accuracy in water                           measurement,(...) the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water's passage. The water flowed off those walls                                 without binding tension(...)a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists."[23]p.367
                    "How rich the odours of your sietch, Stilgar. I see you do much working with the spice . . . you make paper . . . plastics . . . and isn't that                           chemical explosives?"[23]p.393
                    "working with stand-mounted machinery in a large, bright chamber."[23]p.397
                    "A wailing cry sounded from the outer corridors, its volume muffled by the intervening hangings. It was repeated, a bit more distant.                             And again (...) someone was calling the time. (...) he had seen no clocks."[23]p.400
                    "There was no sign of a poison snooper here, no indication of their use anywhere in the cave warren(...) could smell poisons in the                                     sietch stench, strong ones, common ones."[23]p.400
                    "led her back into the acoustical horn that formed the rear limits of the ledge. " [23]p.402 my impression here is that the rear of the                                   ledge has been formed in such a way that the sound is amplified so the rest of this large chamber has a chance to hear what is said.
                    "(although these were growing fewer as the Fremen took their toll of aircraft and raiders with the new weapons Paul had given                                           them)," [23]p.452
                    "The factory crawler lumbered up onto the dry beach below them and a way was opened for it among the rocks . . . and the rocks                                         closed behind it so neatly that the passage escaped his eyes."[23]p.479
                    "eye fixed to the collector of a Fremen telescope. The oil lens" [23]p.515

                    Fremen insults 
                    "Get back, you worm-headed lice!"[23]p.325
                    "you worm-faced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!"[23]p.326
                    " You spawn of a lizard!"  [23]p.328
                    "You were as noisy as shai-hulud in a rage,"[23]p.329
                    "Isn't a one of those sand-lice I cannot handle,"[23]p.335
                    "I'll sheath my knife in your blood,"[23]p.349
                  "curse a shopkeeper: "You have damp hands!" . . ."[28]p.23

                     Fremen Practices
                     "you are to hide our tracks. See that we leave no trace.(...) In squad line with flankers, move out(...)They travel as a military company,                              even the girl"[23]p.332

                     Fremen Food 
                     "Here's food." She pressed two leaf-wrapped morsels into his hand. They reeked of spice."[23]p.334 "bird flesh and grain bound with                                spice honey and encased in a leaf"[23]p.340 direct reference to previous quote.

                     Fremen Titles / Roles 
                     "Water-master . . . where is a water-master?"[23]p.356 one who has responsibility and authority over water matters.
                                                           "The troop's water-master began the morning chanty,"[23]p.447
                     "telling him they wore no green because they accepted him as guardian-father."[23]p.403
                      Reverend Mother    Religious leader
                      Sayyadina
                      Naib                             "a Fremen leader"[23]p.596 "I am a Naib," Stilgar said,"[23]p.448
                      Steersmen                 "he motioned two steersmen out of the line and into positions ahead."[23]p.465 Fremen designated to help steer a                                                                  worm , using maker-hooks on ring-segments.
                      sandrider.                  One who can ride a worm. final test to becoming a fully accepted "you may yet become a sandrider."[23]p.465
                      Goaders                  "goaders pounding the tail segments."[23]p.466
                      Hookman                   "leap of the first hook-man"[23]p.478  the one to get the worm to rise and control.

                      Fremen History
                      "the Fremen culture was far older than she had suspected."[23]p.413
                      "There had been Fremen on Poritrin (...) an easy planet, (...) Imperial raiders to harvest and plant human colonies on Bela Tegeuse                                   and Salusa Secundus."[23]p.413
                      "the selecting that spread men to Rossak and Harmonthep."[23]p.413
                      "the discovery of the poison drug on Rossak"[23]p.413
                      "It was not yet time for the nightly prayer of parting. (...)  ceremony that mourned the slave raids of Poritrin, Bela Tegeuse, Rossak, and                         Harmonthep."[23]p.452