UN General Assembly
1982

Above and beyond the difficulties of all types that today disturb international life, above and beyond national selfishness, tension and conflicts which govern inter-State relations, one truth remains: never before since the emergence of life on earth has mankind been more threatened, more haunted. Never has peace been more precarious, never has our world been more anguished, more disturbed; disturbed at the present, disturbed for the future. In these conditions, our only chance of survival is to mobilize all our energies in the service of greater justice, greater equity on earth.