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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to pay slip service. However, if it is to become a reality, it requires a process of education, a veritable mental renaissance. Once it has become a reality, national as well as international problems will fall into perspectives and become easier to solve. Wars and conflicts, too, will then become a thing of the past, because wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
I don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.
The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
