The gaps in power, the gaps in wealth, the gaps in ideology which hold the nations apart also make up the abyss into which mankind can fall to annihi….

Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life..

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do..

Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true..

To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when people and governments work intelligently and far-sig….

Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with….

I have the impression that when we talk so confidently of liberty, we are unaware of the awful ... servitude of poverty when means are so small that ….

It is very much easier for a rich man to invest and grow richer than for the poor man to begin investing at all. And this is also true of nations..

On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we confront the dest….

the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless poverty. Islands….

Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom..

Our physical unity has gone far ahead of our moral unity..

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanism….

There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with it….

if we continue with what is surely our greatest Western temptation, and think that in some way history owes us a solution, that we can, by pursuing o….

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man out of work is almost a ….

Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for other people. Don't get stuck insi….

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a carica….

Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women..

It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin to receive a sense of o….

To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperativ….