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The threat of hunger cannot be eliminated without the assistance of the developed countries, and this requires significant changes in their foreign and domestic policies.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
The experience of past wars shows that the first use of a new technical or tactical method of attack is usually highly effective even if a simple antidote can soon be developed.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
A system of education under government control, separation of school and church, universal free education — all these are great achievements of social progress. But everything has a reverse side.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
Fascism lasted twelve years in Germany. Stalinism lasted twice as long in the Soviet Union.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
An extreme reflection of the dangers confronting modern social development is the growth of racism, nationalism, and militarism and, in particular, the rise of demagogic, hypocritical, and monstrously cruel dictatorial police regimes.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
The author is quite aware of the monstrous relations in human and international affairs brought forth by the egotistical principle of capital when it is not under pressure from socialist and progressive forces.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
Only universal cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of dogmatism and pressures of the concealed interests of ruling classes, will preserve civilization.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
In the old China, the systems of examinations for official positions led to mental stagnation and to the canonizing of the reactionary aspects of Confucianism. It is highly undesirable to have anything like that in a modern society.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)
The technology and tactics of attack have now far surpassed the technology of defense despite the development of highly maneuverable and powerful anti-missiles with nuclear warheads and despite other technical ideas, such as the use of laser beams and so forth.
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968)