Miss having a car

“I’m not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won’t add to the beauty of the world or the life of men’s souls. I’m not sure. But automobiles have come. And almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war and they are going to alter peace. And I think men’s minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles. And it may be that George is right. May be that in ten or twenty years from now if we can see the inward change in men by that time, I shouldn’t be able to defend the gasoline engine but would have to agree with George, that automobiles had no business to be invented.”

-Eugene Morgan “The Magnificent Ambersons”