What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our 'police action' in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did - or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would … - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would …
- Walter M. Miller, Jr.
What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer… - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer…
When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, … - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, …
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be foll… - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be foll…
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree. - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.
Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter tast… - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Men must fumble awhile with error to separate it from truth, I think- as long as they don't seize the error hungrily because it has a pleasanter tast…
Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum. - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Ask for an omen, then stone it when it comes -- de essentia hominum.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person. - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right… - Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right…
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