Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Mark Clifton and Frank Riley, They'd Rather Be Right page 43

(Cross-posted from Commonplace)

More than knowledge or enlightenment or understanding, man values his ascendancy over something or someone. The fate of mankind is of little consequence to him if he must lose his command in the process.

2 comments:

Jonathan Versen said...

It's like the mirror image of Mark 8:36, "what does it profit a man that he gains the world..."etc

Ethan said...

Oh, interesting...