QUOTES
"We
must have research for peace... It would embrace the outstanding problems of morality.
The time has come for man's intellect, his scientific method, to win over the
immoral brutality and irrationality of war and militarism … Now we are forced
to eliminate from the world forever this vestige of prehistoric barbarism, this
curse to the human race."
We
are privileged to have the opportunity of contributing to the achievement of the
goal of the abolition of war and its replacement by world law. I am confident
that we shall succeed in this great task; that the world community will thereby
be freed not only from the suffering caused by war but also through the better
use of the earth's resources, of the discoveries of scientists, and of the efforts
of mankind, from hunger, disease, illiteracy, and fear; and that we shall in the
course of time be enabled to build a world characterized by economic, political,
and social justice for all human beings and a culture worthy of man's intelligence.
Even
little wars today are perilous, because of the likelihood that a little war would
grow into a world catastrophe.
"Does
the commandment 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' mean nothing to us? Are we to interpret
it as meaning 'Thou shalt not kill except on the grand scale,' or 'Thou shalt
not kill except when the national leaders say to do so'?"
