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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
The world will not Change and find peace if there is not a new education.
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to pay slip service. However, if it is to become a reality, it requires a process of education, a veritable mental renaissance. Once it has become a reality, national as well as international problems will fall into perspectives and become easier to solve. Wars and conflicts, too, will then become a thing of the past, because wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance
To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
