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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished ... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.
Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
To understand my feelings - and my conception of the role of Secretary General - the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.
