Our problem is within ourselves. We have found the means to blow the world physically apart. Spiritually, we have yet to find the means to put together the world's broken pieces.
Interpretation
We need to address our inner issues to create harmony in the world, rather than focusing solely on our destructive capabilities.
Thomas E. Dewey's quote highlights the importance of inner growth and spiritual healing in contrast to our capacity for physical destruction. While humanity has advanced in technology to the point where it can cause catastrophic destruction, the true challenge lies in our ability to foster understanding, connection, and healing among each other. This suggests that resolving internal conflicts and promoting spiritual unity is essential for creating a peaceful world.
In practice
During a peace conference to emphasize the need for inner peace.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
One is almost tempted to say that the language itself is a mythology deprived of its vitality, a bloodless mythology so to speak, which has only preserved in a formal and abstract form what mythology contains in living and concrete form.
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