"But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well."

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Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

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“Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get on the table. You sometimes make creative sacrifices to get the job done. All that said, I'm looking forward to getting out of the two-book-a-year schedule I'm on and to getting some self-indulgence going.”
“I learned to travel, then I travelled to learn.”
“I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.”

Source : "Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal". Book by Peter Kropotkin, 1898.
“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”
“In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.”
“I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.”
“Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.”

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