Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile.

The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself.

The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace.

May the death penalty, an unworthy punishment still used in some countries, be abolished throughout the world.

The problem of pornography is that it does not reveal too much of a woman but too little.

The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.