“Our world is rotten, but I’ve no confidence that the new world will be better!”
Source: The Door Through Space (1961), Chapter 9.
“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.”
Voices in the Wilderness The Guardian (Saturday 28 September 2002).
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Politics Among Nations (1948)
Context: Political realism refuses to identify the moral aspirations of a particular nation with the moral laws that govern the universe. As it distinguishes between truth and opinion, so it distinguishes between truth and idolatry. All nations are tempted — and few have been able to resist the power for long — to clothe their own aspirations and action in the moral purposes of the universe. To know that nations are subject to the moral law is one thing, while to pretend to know with certainty what is good and evil in the relations among nations is quite another. There is a world of difference between the belief that all nations stand under the judgment of God, inscrutable to the human mind, and the blasphemous conviction that God is always on one's side and that what one wills oneself cannot fail to be willed by God also.