The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Technology has advanced faster than our moral understanding.
- In plain terms
- We have powerful weapons but lack the wisdom to use them well.
- What can you take from it?
- Ethical growth must match technological progress.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What stops us from valuing peace as much as power?
- How do we measure moral progress?
Another view
Some argue technology itself is neutral regardless of use.
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