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.


Ch 29 - A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959) - Fiat Voluntas Tua

Walter M. Miller Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...