The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. We learned not to believe in anything, to ignore one another, to care only about ourselves. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension, and for many of us they represented only psychological peculiarities, or they resembled gone-astray greetings from ancient times, a little ridiculous in the era of computers and spaceships.

Our country is not flourishing. The enormous creative and spiritual potential of our nations is not being used sensibly. Entire branches of industry are produc…

The previous regime - armed with its arrogant and intolerant ideology - reduced man to a force of production, and nature to a tool of production. In this it at…

My dear fellow citizens, For forty years you heard from my predecessors on this day different variations on the same theme: how our country was flourishing, ho…

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

I am convinced that the moment is coming when, with its message of eternal, universal values, it will come to the aid of our society. For in these words: 'Thou…

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.