"The teaching of the Great Learning is to manifest one's illustrious virtue, love the people, and rest in the highest good. ... The ancients who wished to manifest illustrious virtue throughout the world, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their own states, they first regulated their own families. Wishing to regulate their own families, the first cultivated their own selves. Wishing to cultivate their own selves, they first rectified their own minds. Wishing to rectify their own minds, they firs sought for absolute sincerity in their thoughts. Wishing for absolute sincerity in their thoughts, they first extended their knowledge. This extension of knowledge consists in the investigation of things.

 

"Things being investigated, only then did their knowledge become extended. Tehir knowledge being extended, only then did their thought become sincere. Their thought being sincere, only then did their mind become rectified. Their mind being rectified, only then did their selves become cultivated. Their selves being cultivated, only then did their families become regulated. Their families being regulated, only then did their states become rightly governed. Tehir states being rightly governed, only then could the world be at peace."

- The Great Learning, by Tseng Tzu from
A Short History of Chinese Philosophy

"Can a criminal court for Yugoslavia, which ignores pervasive violence by the U.S. and diverts public awareness from United States conduct and legitimize by silent acceptance aerial and missile attacks on civilians and illegal weapons use against one country after another, making its repetition expected before it occurs, contribute to the hope for the rule of law, justice and peace?

 

"The United States, itself immune from control or prosecution and above the law, uses its power to cause the persecution of its enemies it selects to terrorize and further demonize. It manufactures and sells arms to chosen nations, to groups seeking to overthrow governments it opposes, uses illegal weapons against defenseless people with impunity, continues to consolidate and expand its near monopoly of nuclear weapons and sophisticated rocketry, spends trillions on unilateral protection from Star Wars, assuring a continued arms race while poverty overwhelms billions, hunger cripples millions, starvation takes hundreds of thousands of lives and AIDS spreads among poor nations.

 

"It cripples international environmental protection, undermines control of nuclear weapons by threatening to withdraw from long-standing protections of ABM and Non-Proliferation treaties. It refuses to ratify treaties to protect life from land mines, which it continues to manufacture, sell and deply. It threatens to undermine a treaty controlling biological and chemical warfare. And the United States regularly engages in covert operations and violent military interventions in other nations in violation of their sovereignty and law."

 

- President Slobodan Milosevec from
Hidden Agenda U.S/NATO Takeover
of Yugoslavia, 2002