{"author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr.","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"Be for Man the memory of Earth and Origin. Remember this Earth. Never forget her, but — never come back. If you come back, you might meet the Archangel at the east end of Earth, guarding her passes with a sword of flame. I feel it. Space is your home hereafter. It’s a lonelier desert than ours. God bless you, and pray for us.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["apocalypse","space"],"id":554,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his Court, and in his name they defraud and govern, enrich themselves and perpetuate their power.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["ignorance","power"],"id":43663,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"M'Lord, I know from history that once upon a time in a much earlier Church, a vocation to the priesthood meant a call from the bishop, not necessarily a call from God. And I heard the Bishop of Rome himself call you to be that which you have now become by ordination and consecration.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["blacktooth","calling","episcopacy","ordination","priesthood","roman-catholicism","vocation"],"id":94554,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["acknowledgement","fact"],"id":113756,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes to pass, I fear, And I am sorry it is so. It will come to pass by violence and upheaval, by flame and by fury, for no change comes calmly over the world.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["apocalypse","change","fear","hugo-award","science-fiction","upheaval","violence"],"id":126335,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["christianity","dom-zerchi","jesus"],"id":128433,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"It is not what you meant to say, but it is what your saying meant.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["language","semantics"],"id":152388,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"Perhaps in his loneliness he had acquired the silent conviction that he was 'the last', the one, the only. And, being the last, he ceased to be Benjamin, becoming Israel. And upon his heart had settled the history of five thousand years, no longer remote, but become as the history of his own lifetime. His 'I' was the converse of the imperial 'We.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["judaism","philosophy"],"id":180623,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law—a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["ends","perversion","security","suffering"],"id":196862,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."},{"text":"That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.","author":"Walter M. Miller Jr.","tags":["apocalypse","conscience"],"id":224386,"author_id":"Walter+M.+Miller+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}