“A country with a general, all round education, which includes not only professional learning but also knowledge about science, arts and humanities. We will be [the best-educated people in the world] by a broad margin and in a short space of time, — in some things we already are the best-educated country in the world”.
"(...) we must strive for peace and we must strive for disarmament, because one fifth of what the world is spending in weapons could be used to promote development."
“[...] We are all duty-bound to think and learn constantly, to learn from the lessons of history and continue till our last breath [...]”.
“There can be no better tribute to those fallen in action, those who perished later without ever abandoning their principles and those who keep on fighting. They are the symbol of a whole generation who put up a fight and it is only fair that our people rejoice in their memory.”
“It is clear that despite all the difficulties and all the setbacks, the truth will out, the most just ideas multiply and millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions are uniting on the side of truth, and this truth, or these truths will end up crushing the empire, and not only from outside but also from inside.”
“No one has ever found a response to satisfy the demands of the existent market we know today, although no one can doubt that humanity is moving toward a stage which will be more just than the human society we have known to date.”
“In our era, problems are increasingly more complex and news is produced at the speed of light, as many know. Nothing happens today in our world, which does not teach something to those of us who wish, and are still able, to understand new realities.”
“Our world order appears to have been designed to foster the egoism, individualism and dehumanization of humanity.”
“In our world of today, every day there are new and ever-more thorny problems rising up and they drain the abilities of the heads of state and governments who are called upon to deal with them. This is not a criticism: it is an observation. It cannot be expected of human beings to have supernatural abilities.Optimism will always be the best option. ”
“We have to make the brain cells work if we want to build consciences, so necessary in today’s complex world.”