QUOTES
Misunderstanding
arising from ignorance breeds fear, and fear remains the greatest enemy of peace.
The stark
and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total
war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually
we will have total war. Therefore, the best defense of peace is not power, but
the removal of the causes of war, and international agreement which will put peace
on a stronger foundation than the terror of destruction.
A
great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social
and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed
or narrowed.
It
has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Of
all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than
that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to
do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
The
choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual:
peace or extinction.
The
stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since
total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy,
eventually we will have total war.
Today
continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international
tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
We
must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the
basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and
self-interest.
