We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
More science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old one.
History is a means of access to ourselves.
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary.
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
If you owe $50, you’re a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you’re a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you’re a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, your the government.