Guest (2): What has been written about the future of civilization? Will we have a happy human family ever on the earth, or will there always be conflict between . . .
Prabhupāda: That we are experiencing. This godless civilization is . . . there is no peace, although we are improving . . . just like I was talking yesterday. We have discovered this airplane, but we have given chance another kind of danger.
(aside) What is that? Skyjack?
Devotee: Skyjack. Yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes. So this is going on. We are making something for our convenience, but we are creating something else which is inconvenient. So this is due to godless civilization. But if we become God conscious, then our progress of civilization will be very peaceful and happy. Harāv abhaktasya kuto mahad-guṇā mano-rathena asato dhāvato bahiḥ (SB 5.18.12). That is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Yasyāsti bhaktir bhagavaty akiñcanā sarvair guṇais tatra samāsate surāḥ: "Anyone who has got devotion to the Lord, he is qualified with all the good qualities." Just like you are God conscious, so you have invited us to hear, because you . . . the good qualities are there.
So without God consciousness there cannot be any good qualities. We are trying to educate people to be honest, very very gentle, fair-dealing, but actually, the result is people are becoming dishonest, miscreant, rogue, thief, due to (lack of) God consciousness. Just like in the airport, all gentlemen are searched out. What does it mean? That every one of us dishonest. That is to be understood. So what the education has produced? Simply dishonest men. Why? Because godlessness. That's all.