History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?

But teleological considerations can lead no further than to a belief and a hope. They do not give certainty.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

No state is free from militarism, which is inherent in the very concept of the sovereign state. There are merely differences of degree in the militarism of states.

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.