Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

I'm against ignorance.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

Nuclear war is such an emotional subject that many people see the weapons themselves as the common enemy of humanity.

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.