When A Truth Is Not Given Complete

Every Consession Gives Rise To Further Concessions, We Cannot Back Down, Because Behind Us There Is Only An Abyss, We Must Keep Our Promises And Demand That They Be Kept.

My Dear Fellow Citizens: For Forty Years You Have Heard From My Predecessors On This Day Different Variations Of The Same Theme: How Our Country Flourished, How Many Millions Of Tons Of Steel We Produced, How Happy We All Were, How We Trusted Our Government, And What Bright Perspectives Were Unfolding In Front Of Us. I Assume You Did Not Propose Me For This Office So That I, Too, Would Lie To You.

By Perceiving Ourselves As Part Of The River, We Take Responsibility For The River As A Whole.

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.

A Genuinely Fundamental And Hopeful Improvement In "systems" Cannot Happen Without A Significant Shift In Human Consciousness.