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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.
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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 Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
The world will not Change and find peace if there is not a new education.
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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.
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
