The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. It recognizes aesthetic, moral, and religious ideas and experiences as a species, in this case of mental structures or of images, which clearly interacts with other species in the world's great' ecosystem.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together.

[The historical] development in the international system may almost be defined as the process by which we pass from stable war to stable peace.

The World is a very complex system. It is easy to have too simple a view of it, and it is easy to do harm and to make things worse under the impulse to do good and make things better.

[Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.