It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

I agree with the many who consider freezing all sorts of weapons systems a first step in a realistic disarmament policy.

War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

Because war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.