Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.