You can't make flivers ...

You can\'t make flivers without steel - and you can\'t make tragedies without social instability. The world\'s stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can\'t get. They\'re well off; they\'re safe; they\'re never ill; they\'re not afraid of death; they\'re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they\'re plagued with no mothers or fathers; they\'ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they\'re so conditioned that they pratically can\'t help behaving as they ought to behave.
You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.