- It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public.
- Academic disciplines have become so specialized in recent years that scholars' ideas reach only a narrow audience.
Until scholars can reach a wider audience, their ideas will have little use.... - All nations should help support the development of a global university designed to engage students in the process of solving the world's most persistent social problems.
- People's attitudes are determined more by their immediate situation or surroundings than by any internal characteristic.
- Many of the world's lesser-known languages are being lost as fewer and fewer people speak them.
- It is necessary for everyone to read poetry, novels, mythology and other types of imaginative literature.
- The stability of a society depends on how it responds to the extremes of human behavior.
- There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws.
