17 – “What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the Earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeaval barbarism and strife.”

– Nikola Tesla [See Source Notes for context]

Quote Number: 85

Source: Tesla, Nikola. “My Inventions.” Electical Experimenter, 1919. Available online at http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1919-00-00.htm

Source Notes: The quote in its entirety:

“While I have not lost faith in its potentialities, my views have changed since.

War can not be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only though annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination of that fanatic devotion to exalted ideals of national egoism and pride, which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife. No league or parliamentary act of any kind will ever prevent such a calamity. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.”

Tesla, Nikola. “My Inventions.” Electical Experimenter, 1919. Available online at http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1919-00-00.htm

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