If Only Evil Things Are Done By

In Montreal, Where I Taught In 1970, I Met Many People. The Only Ones Who Said To Me They Were Canadians, Were Jews. All The Rest Were Scotts, Irish, English, French, Swedes.

The Carrying Power Of A Bridge Is Not The Average Strength Of The Pillars, But The Strength Of The Weakest Pillar. I Have Always Believed That You Do Not Measure The Health Of A Society By Gnp But By The Condition Of Its Worst Off.

We Already Have - Thanks To Technology, Development, Skills, The Efficiency Of Our Work - Enough Resources To Satisfy All Human Needs. But We Don't Have Enough Resources, And We Are Unlikely Ever To Have, To Satisfy Human Greed.

The Woe Of Mortality Makes Humans God-like. It Is Because We Know That We Must Die That We Are So Busy Making Life. It Is Because We Are Aware Of Mortality That We Preserve The Past And Create The Future. Mortality Is Ours Without Asking--but Immortality Is Something We Must Build Ourselves. Immortality Is Not A Mere Absence Of Death; It Is Defiance And Denial Of Death. It Is 'meaningful' Only Because There Is Death, That Implacable Reality Which Is To Be Defied.

We Are Always Confronted With Choice.