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WT Sharpe · 01-31-2011, 08:53 AM

.....It would now be technically possible to unify the world and abolish war altogether. It would also be technically possible to abolish poverty completely. These things would be done if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies. There were, in the past, physical obstacles to human well-being. The only obstacles now are in the souls of men. Hatred, folly and mistaken beliefs alone stand between us and the millennium.
..........— Bertrand [Arthur William] Russell, (1872-1970), British mathematician, philosopher. Portraits from Memory: And Other Essays (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956), "Portraits From Memory", page 37.

01-31-2011, 08:53 AM	#1158
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....It would now be technically possible to unify the world and abolish war altogether. It would also be technically possible to abolish poverty completely. These things would be done if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies. There were, in the past, physical obstacles to human well-being. The only obstacles now are in the souls of men. Hatred, folly and mistaken beliefs alone stand between us and the millennium. ..........— Bertrand [Arthur William] Russell, (1872-1970), British mathematician, philosopher. *Portraits from Memory: And Other Essays* (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956), "Portraits From Memory", page 37.