April222009
"The present time is not an economic revolution but a spiritual revolution. We, the people of today, are passing through the most momentous and far-reaching changes that have taken place since the beginning of recorded history. Science has made us the undisputed masters of all the forces of Nature. There is enough grain to feed everybody. There is enough wool to clothe everybody. There is enough stone and mortar to house everybody. And yet the picture all around us is one of vast hopelessness and despair.
Something therefore must be wrong with the picture! That is what we say. Would it not perhaps be a little fairer to confess: ‘Something is wrong with ourselves?’
‘To have or to be!’ I shall submit that terrific sentence to all who have eyes to see and ears to hear and that true spiritual courage that is the basis of all permanent progress."
— Hendrick Van Loon. “To Have or to Be.”
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