# Quote — Philip K. Dick, Eye In The Sky

> The hymns were unfamiliar to him, but he quickly picked up the general beat. The hymns had a redundant simplicity; the same phrases and tones appeared and reappeared. The same monotonous ideas, repeated indefinitely. The appetite of (Tetragrammaton) was insatiable, he concluded. A childish, nebulous personality that required constant praise—and in the most obvious terms. Quick to anger, (Tetragrammaton) was equally quick to sink into euphoria, was eager and ready to lap up these blatant flatteries.
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> A balance. A method of lulling the Deity. But what a delicate mechanism. Danger for everyone...The easily-aroused Presence that was always nearby. Always listening.

- Author: [Philip K. Dick](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick.md)
- Book: [Eye In The Sky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-k-dick/eye-in-the-sky.md)
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## More from this book

> “People like your wife are dangerous.”
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> “Why?” Hamilton asked.
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> “They don’t belong to any group. They fool around with everything. As soon as we turn our back—”
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> “So you destroy them. You turn them over to the lunatic patriots.”
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> “The lunatic patriots,” McFeyffe said, “we can understand. But not your wife. She signs Party peace petitions and she reads the Chicago Tribune. People like her—they’re more of a menace to Party discipline than any other bunch. The cult of individualism. The idealist with his own law, his own ethics. Refusing to accept authority. It undermines society. It topples the whole structure. Nothing lasting can be built on it. People like your wife just won’t take orders.”

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> This time, there was no punishment from above. Sighing, Hamilton almost wished there had been; the capricious personality element infuriated him. There was just too little relationship between deed and punishment; the lightning was probably cutting down some totally innocent Cheyennite, on the far side of town.

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> “Time to get up,” he informed her. “Don’t you hear the Almighty bellowing in the living room?”
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> “What’s he saying?” Marsha murmured crossly.
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> “Nothing in particular. Repent or suffer eternal damnation. The usual tribal tub-thumping.”

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