Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Category Archive: 1944
Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers.
I have seen journals with good financial backing and editorial support die because they looked so bad nobody wanted to publish them.
Continue to surprise those who would put you in a neat demographic. Be insistently curious.
When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he’s referring to.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
Terrorists destroy randomly.
Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all humankind. Its success would strengthen international peace and security. It would free up vast and much-needed resources for social and economic development. It would advance the rule of law.
True security is based on people’s welfare – on a thriving economy, on strong public health and education programmes, and on fundamental respect for our common humanity. Development, peace, disarmament, reconciliation and justice are not separate from security; they help to underpin it.