Vera Stanley Alder Quotes

There are those who stand in the vanguard, those who huddle ineffectively in the centre, and those who definitely hold progress back.

That crossing will revolutionize the whole of human thinking and mark the transition of humanity from the stage of adolescence into the stage of human adulthood.

This chasm has to be crossed by the human mind to-day.

There is a great chasm between this new principle and the traditional one of separatism, self-interest and acquisitiveness.

Such an ideology has always been available... It is embodied either in the true Christian or the true Buddhist faith, but it has never yet been put into practice. It could provide the scientific and practical basis for world regeneration. It embodies the principle of unity, of sharing and of cooperation.

What then is missing? An ideology which would produce full harmony, co-operation and growth in alignment with the laws and economy of nature!

The old ways of life are steadily losing their hold. Labour revolts. Culture revolts too. They are all subconsciously reaching for something different and better. They realize that science and culture, education such as it is, orthodox religion such as it is, have not saved men from a process of self impoverization and mutual extermination in a variety of forms.

Surely the human race is at last reaching the stage of adulthood — that adulthood of character which does not depend upon physical age at all — so that it is deliberately embracing responsibility for its own development and government, and trying to face up to the causes of its failures?

It has seen the people themselves taking increasing individual and collective action in order to obtain a world organization or government, a universal religion, or a universal language.

This century has seen...a world civilization threatened with self-destruction, not only through war but through the exploitation of all the kingdoms in nature...

What is happening in the world today? We have been living through an epoch in which wars, tyrannies and privations seem to have reached their peak...