Hugh MacLennan Quotes

In The Thirties All Of Us Who Were Young Had Been United By Anger And The Obviousness Of Our Plight; In The War We Had Been United By Fear And The Obviousness Of The Danger. But Now, Prosperous Under The Bomb, We All Seemed To Have Become Atomized. Wherever I Looked I Saw People Trying To Live Private Lives For Themselves And Their Families. Nobody Asked The Big Questions Any More. Why Think, When The Thing To Be Thought About Is So Huge It Is Impossible To Think About It? Why Ask Where You Are Going, When You Know You Can't Stop Even If You Wish? Why Ask Why, When It Does No Good To Know Why?

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