If You Want Peace, Work For Justice.

Man Is Suddenly Becoming Aware That By An Ill-considered Exploitation Of Nature He Risks Destroying It And Becoming In His Turn The Victim Of This Degradation. Not Only Is The Material Environment Becoming A Permanent Menace - Pollution And Refuse, New Illness And Absolute Destructive Capacity - But The Human Framework Is No Longer Under Man's Control, Thus Creating An Environment For Tomorrow Which May Well Be Intolerable. This Is A Wide-ranging Social Problem Which Concerns The Entire Human Family.

For You Deal Here Above All With Human Life, And Human Life Is Sacred; No One May Dare Make An Attempt Upon It. Respect For Life, Even With Regard To The Great Problem Of The Birth Rate, Must Find Here In Your Assembly Its Highest Affirmation And Its Most Rational Defense. Your Task Is To Ensure That There Is Enough Bread On The Tables Of Mankind, And Not To Encourage An Artificial Control Of Births, Which Would Be Irrational, In Order To Diminish The Number Of Guests At The Banquet Of Life.

Are There Memories Left That Are Safe From The Clutches Of Phony Anniversaries?

Technological Society Has Succeeded In Multiplying The Opportunities For Pleasure, But It Has Great Difficulty In Generating Joy.

Modern Man Listens More Willingly To Witnesses Than To Teachers, And If He Does Listen To Teachers, It Is Because They Are Witnesses.