Whether peace is to be reached only after unimaginable
horrors precipitated by humanity’s stubborn clinging to old patterns of
behavior, or is to be embraced now by an act of consultative will, is the choice
before all who inhabit the earth. At this critical juncture when the
intractable problems confronting nations have been fused into one common
concern for the whole world, failure to stem the tide of conflict and disorder
would be unconscionably irresponsible.
- The Universal House of Justice (‘The
Promise of World Peace, October 1985)
