All Human Suffering Concerns Each Human Being.

Without Commonly Shared And Widely Entrenched Moral Values And Obligations, Neither The Law, Nor Democratic Government, Nor Even The Market Economy Will Function Properly.

If I Have Accomplished Anything Good, Then It's Mainly Because I've Been Driven By The Need To Know Whether I Can Accomplish Things I'm Not Sure I Have The Capacity For.

Our Country, If That Is What We Want, Can Now Permanently Radiate Love, Understanding, The Power Of The Spirit And Of Ideas. It Is Precisely This Glow That We Can Offer As Our Specific Contribution To International Politics.

It Would Appear That The Traditional Parliamentary Democracies Can Offer No Fundamental Opposition To That Automatism Of Technological Civilization And The Industrial-consumer Society, For They Too Are Being Dragged Helplessly Along By It. People Are Manipulated In Ways That Are Infinitely More Subtle And Refined Than The Brutal Methods Used In Post-totalitarian Societies.

The Idea Of Human Rights And Freedoms Must Be An Integral Part Of Any Meaningful World Order. Yet, I Think It Must Be Anchored In A Different Place, And In A Different Way, Than Has Been The Case So Far. If It Is To Be More Than Just A Slogan Mocked By Half The World, It Cannot Be Expressed In The Language Of A Departing Era, And It Must Not Be Mere Froth Floating On The Subsiding Waters Of Faith In A Purely Scientific Relationship To The World.