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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
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.
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.
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.
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance
World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.
