If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.

First and foremost arms are tools in the service of rival nations, pointing at the possibility of a future war.

If they [women] are to be integrated more fully into our society than has been the case so far, changes in individual attitudes of both men and women, adjustments in the labor market, and action by public authorities, will all be necessary.

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

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

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.

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.