Throughout history, people have lived in poverty and misery. They have been degraded by hunger and ignorance, they have tormented each other and been driven into war. Yet, not everything has remained the same: The difference is that we have acquired greater knowledge. The difference is, above all, that we are beginning to display a willingness to take responsibility for each other. Therefore, it is not without meaning when we react, take a stance and, to the best of our ability, try to influence human development.

One should refer to things by their accurate designation. What is happening right now in Vietnam is a form of torture. What they do is tormenting people. They …

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.

For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility,…

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the na…

We should be less concerned about adding years to life, and more about adding life to years. I have been very fortunate to have witnessed some of humanity's gr…