Prabhupāda: So there is no civilization except in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That's a fact. All madmen.
Rāmeśvara: I remember about a year ago you told me that the biggest problem facing America in the future is unemployment.
Prabhupāda: Yes. That's a fact. That's a fact.
Rāmeśvara: I think you even said that "This unemployment will destroy your country." You once said that.
Prabhupāda: Yes. At least, the black men will spoil everything if they are unemployed.
Rāmeśvara: He'll simply become a thief.
Prabhupāda: Thieves, rogues and plunderers. That's all.
Hari-śauri: Detroit has the highest murder rate in the world, 'cause all the city population is black.
Prabhupāda: Therefore we could purchase that palace which has cost six million dollars fifty years ago.
Rāmeśvara: Giving it away.
Prabhupāda: And we have got for three hundred thousand. Why? Nobody was purchasing. Who will go to purchase there? I took it: "Yes, it is..." I offered him... He was asking 350,000. So I told him, "I'll pay you cash, all three hundred." He immediately agreed. (laughs) I should have offered him less. He would have agreed. Nobody was purchasing.
Hari-śauri: Yes, we could have got it for about 250,000 probably.
Prabhupāda: So he immediately agreed. Anyway, that's a very nice place. You have seen?
Rāmeśvara: Yes.
Prabhupāda: Very nice place, unique palace.
Hari-śauri: Yes, it's very good center.
Prabhupāda: Oh, yes. Very nice building. We haven't got such building anywhere. On the waterside, big, big rooms, very nicely decorated, aristocratic, really aristocratic. Really aristocratic. How many devotees are living there?
Rāmeśvara: In Detroit? I think between forty and sixty devotees.
Prabhupāda: I think more. There are many devotees. And we can accommodate one hundred very easily.