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.
Address to the United Nations (1964)
Address to the United Nations (1964)
“We should aim for peaceful coexistence at least and transcultural synergy at best.”
Symbiotic Realism: A Theory of International Relations in an Instant and an Interdependent World, p. 124 (2007)
Don Tapscott, in: The spirit of collaboration is touching all of our lives http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/the-spirit-of-collaboration-is-touching-all-of-our-lives/article12409331/, The Globe and Mail, 7 June 2013
“…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)
“Every sin is the result of a collaboration.”
"The Blue Hotel", from The Monster and Other Stories (1898)
Lien Chan (2013) cited in " Hu Jintao meets Lien Chan, urging further co-op http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-02/26/content_16258173.htm" on China Daily, 26 February 2013
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.
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Book No-Thing-ness
Context: To attain the Way of strategy as a warrior you must study fully other martial arts and not deviate even a little from the Way of the warrior. With your spirit settled, accumulate practice day by day, and hour by hour. Polish the twofold spirit heart and mind, and sharpen the twofold gaze perception and sight. When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.
“The reader collaborates with the author in every book, or The reader is co-author in every book.”
Tout livre a pour collaborateur son lecteur
Source: Biographical notice http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/maurice-barres-499.php on Evene
