It will not be enough to rely on experts. Ordinary citizens must become experts too. It will take public opinion on a wide scale to ensure that world leaders act.

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.

New approaches are needed, new orientations in both thought and action. We must make the transition to a new civilization...We are talking of a transition toward a new civilization. No one knows what it will be like. What is important is to orient in that direction... I am convinced that a new civilization will inevitably take on certain features that are characteristic of, or inherent in, the socialist ideal.

Women prevent the threads of life from being broken. The finest minds have always understood the peacemaking role of women.