QUOTES
Man's
greatest advances these last few generations have been made by the application
of human intelligence to the management of matter. Now we are confronted by a
more difficult problem, the application of intelligence to the management of human
relations. Unless we can advance in that field also, the very instruments that
man's intelligence has created may be the instruments of his destruction."
The
obstacles to peace are not obstacles in matter, in inanimate nature, in the mountains
which we pierce, in the seas across which we fly. The obstacles to peace are in
the minds and hearts of men.
Let
us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually
genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but
on the whole of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made not
usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies
pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right.
