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 soul of men. Hatred, folly and mistaken beliefs alone stand between us and the millennium.
Source: Portraits from Memory and Other Essays, 1956, chap. 4: From Logic to Politics, p.39.
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