UN General Assembly
1971

159. May I conclude my statement by expressing my personal belief that despite the formidable economic problems confronting us as a society and as individuals, our most important need today is spiritual. If we neglect this aspect of life, the political and social situations may well explode, making all our efforts to change them or control them vain. 160. Life is constituted not only of material values, even though these may to a large extent regulate our lives. Life Is a period of constant self-growth, of love of beauty, good and justice, and the good, in countless cases for communities and societies, and in one word, for man, lies simply in being just and fair just towards ourselves, just towards others, just towards all nations. 161. To breathe into the minds of all peoples the mystique of the spirit is the revolutionary, but glorious, work of the man of today.