"Simpler Social Problems Have Proved Intractable", paragraph 138
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
“The human race believes in not taking its problems seriously enough to solve them.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
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(1904–1971) American diplomat
in Indonesia, Palestine, and Kashmir - has demonstrated convincingly that parties to the most severe conflict may be induced to abandon war as the method of settlement in favour of mediation and conciliation, at a merciful saving of untold lives and acute suffering. Unfortunately, there may yet be some in the world who have not learned that today war can settle nothing, that aggressive force can never be enough, nor will it be tolerated. If this should be so, the pitiless wrath of the organized world must fall upon those who would endanger the peace for selfish ends. For in this advanced day, there is no excuse, no justification, for nations resorting to force except to repel armed attack.
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Jair Bolsonaro
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