Ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

What we're talking about is creating new forms of life on the basis of new values.

I envisage the prinicles of the Earth Charter to be a new form of the ten commandments. They lay the foundation for a sustainable global earth community.

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.

In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]