# Quote — Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

> Timothy looked at the deep ocean sky, trying to see Earth and the war and the ruined cities and the men killing each other since the day he was born. But he saw nothing. The war was as removed and far off as two flies battling to the death in the arch of a great high and silent cathedral. And just as senseless...
>
> “What are you looking at so hard, Dad?”
>
> “I was looking for Earthian logic, common sense, good government, peace, and responsibility.”
>
> “All that up there?”
>
> “No. I didn’t find it. It’s not there any more. Maybe it’ll never be there again. Maybe we fooled ourselves that it was ever there.”

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

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