No, Those Ears Were Not Created By

Human Societies, Like Human Beings, Live By Faith And Die When Faith Dies.

Crime, Violence, Infamy Are Not Tragedy. Tragedy Occurs When A Human Soul Awakes And Seeks, In Suffering And Pain, To Free Itself From Crime, Violence, Infamy, Even At The Cost Of Life. The Struggle Is The Tragedy - Not Defeat Or Death. That Is Why The Spectacle Of Tragedy Has Always Filled Men, Not With Despair, But With A Sense Of Hope And Exaltation.

For In This Century, Within The Next Decades, Will Be Decided For Generations Whether All Mankind Is To Become Communist, Whether The Whole World Is To Become Free, Or Whether, In The Struggle, Civilization As We Know It Is To Be Completely Destroyed Or Completely Changed.

A Man Is Not Primarily A Witness Against Something. That Is Only Incidental To The Fact That He Is A Witness For Something.

... My Century.. Is Unique In The History Of Men For Two Reasons. It Is The First Century Since Life Began When A Decisive Part Of The Most Articulate Section Of Mankind Has Not Merely Ceased To Believe In God, But Has Deliberately Rejected God. And It Is The Century In Which This Religious Rejection Has Taken A Specifically Political Form.