# Quote — Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

> The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.

- Author: [Ray Bradbury](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury.md)
- Book: [The Martian Chronicles](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ray-bradbury/the-martian-chronicles.md)
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> They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

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> Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

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