General Omar N. Bradley, formerly the U.S. Army's
Chief of Staff, and the last five-star General said on one occasion:
"With the monstrous weapons man already has,
humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescence.
Our knowledge of science has clearly outstripped our capacity to control it.
"We have too many men of science; too few men
of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the
Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with
the precarious secrets of life and death.
"The world has achieved
brilliance without wisdom, power 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."