“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 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?”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“....to abuse the intellect for reasons of pride, vanity, or escape from responsibility, is the fruit of that same tree.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“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.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
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