Walter M. Miller, Jr. Quotes

The Trouble With Being A Priest Was That You Eventually Had To Take The Advice You Gave To Others.

Soon The Sun Will Set'- Is That Prophecy? No, It's Merely An Assertion Of Faith In The Consistency Of Events.

But Neither Infinite Power Nor Infinite Wisdom Could Bestow Godhood Upon Men. For That There Would Have To Be Infinite Love As Well.

When You Tire Of Living, Change Itself Seems Evil, Does It Not? For Then Any Change At All Disturbs The Deathlike Peace Of The Life-weary.

The Captain Looked Defensive. "you Regard Our Customs As Primitive?"every Society To Its Own Tastes, Captain. The Wisdom Of One Society Would Be Folly For Another. Who Is Qualified To Judge? Only The Universe, Which Passes The Judgment Of Survival On All Peoples.

It Is Said That Water Is For Cattle And Farmers, That Milk Is For Children And Blood For Men.

For No Change Comes Calmly Over The World.

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?

....nature Imposes Nothing On You That Nature Doesn't Prepare You To Bear.

The Wild Black Scavengers Of The Skies Laid Their Eggs In Season And Lovingly Fed Their Young. They Soared High Over Prairies And Mountains And Plains, Searching For The Fulfillment Of That Share Of Life's Destiny Which Was Theirs According To The Plan Of Nature. Their Philosophers Demonstrated By Unaided 15 Animals Reason Alone That The Supreme Cathartes Aura Regnans Had Created The World Especially For Buzzards. They Worshipped Him With Hearty Appetites For Many Centuries.

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 Taste.

When Holy Church Occasionally Hinted That She Still Considered Her Authority To Be Supreme Over All Nations And Superior To The Authority Of States, Men In These Times Tended To Snicker.