 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
We are grateful to those who, in the past, planted avenues which they did not live to see full-grown. We have good reason to be concerned when soils are exhausted by unwise cultivation. We are far too careless of the world's mineral resources. We are even carrying pleasure in combat to the point where we seem to face with equanimity the possibility that we may exterminate the human race. In these ways ours is an unusually reckless age. It is reckless because everything is fluid and the future is uncertain. Until some stability is recovered, it is unlikely that men will give due thought to posterity.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 11：
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