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A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat

Book by Joseph Rotblat · 4 quotes · Nuclear, Weapons, Nuclear Weapons

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A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat Quotes

“Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.”

“The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task.”