U Thant was "an example, if not an ideal, of an ethical and moral person." --- Walter Dorn

>""In this world, try to be both good and able. If you do not become able men, at least try to be good men. The country has no use for able but bad men." --- #UThant is #Buddhist but reading #WalterDorn's chapter #BuddhismInAction keeps making me think of chapters in #LaoTzu's work #老子.

http://walterdorn.net/pdf/UThant-BuddhismInAction_Dorn_SG-MoralAuthority_2007.pdf

> In 1971.. ‘As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: “With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas,” or, “They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.”’ #UThant in The #GreatDerangement

#Wars begin in the minds of men & in those minds, love & compassion would have built the defenses of peace
#UThant