When A Truth Is Not Given Complete

The Declaration Of Independence States That The Creator Gave Man The Right To Liberty. It Seems Man Can Realize That Liberty Only If He Does Not Forget The One Who Endowed Him With It.

It Cannot Suffice To Invent New Machines, New Regulations, New Institutions. It Is Necessary To Change And Improve Our Understanding Of The True Purpose Of What We Are And What We Do In The World. Only Such A New Understanding Will Allow Us To Develop New Models Of Behavior, New Scales Of Values And Goals, And Thereby Invest The Global Regulations, Treaties And Institutions With A New Spirit And Meaning.

We Are The First Atheistic And Global, All-embracing Civilization. You Cannot Tell Whether You Are Sitting At An Airport In Hong Kong Or In A Hotel In Alaska. Everything Is Instrumentalized, Subjected To A Short-term Purpose. It Is Quite Possible That In Such A Situation Any Sense Of A Deeper Meaning Gets Lost.

Even A Purely Moral Act That Has No Hope Of Any Immediate And Visible Political Effect Can Gradually And Indirectly, Over Time, Gain In Political Significance.

The Law Is Only One Of Several Imperfect And More Or Less External Ways Of Defending What Is Better In Life Against What Is Worse. By Itself, The Law Can Never Create Anything Better. Establishing Respect For The Law Does Not Automatically Ensure A Better Life For That, After All, Is A Job For People And Not For Laws And Institutions.