Aren’t you responsible for everything that is going on in the world? Aren’t you responsible for the government you elected? Aren’t you responsible for what your congressman or parliamentarian or party are doing? Aren’t you responsible completely for the encouragement of war, the building up armaments? We think after doing political activity or choosing a president or prime minister that it’s their job to run the country and be honest. There we stop; we let them do what they want to do. They are like you and me, just human beings, and so are greedy, envious, suspicious, seeking power, personal security, personal enchantment and all the rest of it. It is one of the great calamities of this century, that we have divided ourselves from society and government. Society is put together by human beings; society is not different from you. You are society, you are the government. You are responsible for the violence that is going on in the world because you are violent. Violence isn’t merely a physical response; it is much deeper than that. You talk about having peace but you don’t live a peaceful life. So it must begin not in Washington, London, Delhi or Moscow, but at home. It must begin where you are. Whatever your position is, however low or high in society you are, it must begin at home. And that we are unwilling to do. We say the war is because of the Russians or because of the Americans, and so on. This has been going on for thousands of years. Human beings do not want peace; they much prefer violence because they think that gives them a certain vitality. We have never gone into the question of peace, which requires a great deal of insight, intelligence, investigation and commitment. We have shoved our responsibility onto their shoulders, and that is why the world is in this terrible state.