The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. It is related to the outburst of violence in human society. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.