Symbiotic Realism: A Theory of International Relations in an Instant and an Interdependent World, p. 124 (2007)
Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.403
Address to the United Nations (1964)
Address to the United Nations (1964)
“When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.”
The Pleasures of Life, vol. 1 (1887), ch. II: The Happiness of Duty
“The strategy of peaceful coexistence and collaboration must be deepened in every way.”
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), The Basis for Hope, A Summary of Proposals
Context: The strategy of peaceful coexistence and collaboration must be deepened in every way. Scientific methods and principles of international policy will have to be worked out, based on scientific prediction of the immediate and more distant consequences.
The initiative must be seized in working out a broad program of struggle against hunger.
A law on press and information must be drafted, widely discussed, and adopted, with the aim not only of ending irresponsible and irrational censorship, but also of encouraging self-study in our society, fearless discussion, and the search for truth. The law must provide for the material resources of freedom of thought.
All anti-constitutional laws and decrees violating human rights must be abrogated.
“…Poverty and violence are not God made, they are man made. Poverty and peace cannot coexist.”
Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)
Nobel Address (1991)
Context: 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.
And, ideally, peace means the absence of violence. It is an ethical value.
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 297
