
Journal entry (1 November 1914)
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
As Secretary General of NATO (1952 - 1957). See Smith, Robert. The NATO International Staff/Secretariat, 1952-1957. London: Oxford University Press, 1967, p. 65
Journal entry (1 November 1914)
1910s, Notebooks 1914-1916
“I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes.”
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Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas (c. 2nd century AD manuscript)
“There was no one to understand Me until I created the whole world”
As quoted by his official biographer, N. Kasthuri, in 'Pathway to Peace', p. 64.
1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
"Nationalism in the West", 1917. Reprinted in Rabindranath Tagore and Mohit K. Ray, Essays (2007, p. 492).
Cited in: " Joke, Anecdotes, etc http://www.moshe-online.com/worms/jokes/jokes.html" by Moshe Sniedovich, 2013
Principles of Operations Research (1975)