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Our efforts to apply pressure on Iran are not meant to punish the Iranian people. They are meant to change the approach the Iranian government has taken toward its nuclear program.
Hillary Clinton (28.01.2010)
William Wyler „The Best Years of Our Lives“ (1946), Film-Sequenz 00:24:40-00:25:27
Two exhausting world wars in a single half century have given no assurance of a lasting peace. Dreams of progress toward a higher civilization have been shattered by the spectacle of the murder of millions of innocent people. The worst may be still to come. […] The technologies based upon science are disturbing. Isolated groups of relatively stable people are brought into contact with each other and lose their equilibrium. Industries spring up for which the life of a community may be unprepared, while others vanish leaving millions unfit for productive work. The application of science prevents famines and plagues, and lowers death rates – only to populate the earth beyond the reach of established systems of cultural or governmental control. Science has made war more terrible and more destructive. […] It may not be science which is wrong but only its application. The methods of science have been enormously successful wherever they have been tried. Let us then apply them to human affairs. […] Indeed, this may well be our only hope.
B. F. Skinner “Science and Human Behaviour” (1953)