QUOTES
The
longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men.
I
am intentionally not using the phrase 'striving for peace' too frequently. The
longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which
at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to leading the way to eternal
peace, or solving all disputes among nations, so strong are the economic and political
roots. Nor can it create a lasting state of harmonious understanding between men.
Our immediate striving must be aimed at preventing what, in the present situation,
is the greatest threat to the very survival of mankind, the nuclear threat.
Because
war and preparations for war have acquired legitimacy, and because of the tremendous
proliferation of arms through production and export, so that they are now available
more or less to all and sundry, right down to handguns and stilettos, the cult
of violence has by now so permeated relations between people that we are compelled
to witness as well an increase in everyday violence.
War
is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major
conflict are aimed at collective murder.
I
have always regarded global development as a struggle between good and evil forces.
Dare
we believe that the leaders of the world's great nations will wake up, will see
the precipice towards which they are moving, and will change direction?
There
is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective
is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial
media.
