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Walter M. Miller Jr.

“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.”

Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1) A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
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