QUOTES
"We
desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature
and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all
people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology
and consumerism."
"What
we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars." -- Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Today,
peace means the ascent from simple coexistence to cooperation and common creativity
among countries and nations.
Peace
is movement towards globality and universality of civilization. Never before has
the idea that peace is indivisible been so true as it is now.
Peace
is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation
of differences
Ideally,
peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
A
balance of interests rather than a balance of power, a search for compromise and
concord rather than a search for advantages at other people's expense, and respect
for equality rather than claims to leadership - such are the elements which can
provide the groundwork for world progress…
I
believe mankind, which was able to bring into being a unique civilization on our
planet, will know how to keep that civilization from self-destruction.
We
need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and
nature and the ethic of global responsibility.
"We
need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need
to educate people."
It
is my firm belief that the infinite and uncontrollable fury of nuclear weapons
should never be held in the hands of any mere mortal ever again, for any reason.
