Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth... →
Michael Ignatieff
Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.
A society is not a market. It is a political community.
The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states. As a... →
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed... →
Daisaku Ikeda
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the... →
No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the... →
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is... →