Excerpt from Krishnamurti's Speech to the UN (1984)

"If you kill another, if you are in conflict with another, you are destroying yourself. You can observe this very carefully by looking at yourself. There can only be peace in mankind if you and I have no conflict in ourselves so..you can say if a man comes to the end of all conflict in himself, how do you think it will effect the rest of mankind? This is a very old question that is thousands and thousands of years old, years before Christ. We have to ask within ourselves where there is pain, sorrow, despair and all that..can it ever end? If one applies and looks with considerable attention (as you look with great attention when combing your hair or shaving)with the quality of your attention heightened, you can observe in yourself, all the nuances and subtleties...In the mirror you can see yourself exactly as you are, but most of us are fighting to see what we are and so we gradually develop resistance,
guilt and all the rest of that business. So, we never ask for total freedom. Not to do what you like, but to be free from choice. Where there are multiple choices, there are multiple confusions. So can we live on this earth with a great understanding of mankind, which is to understand yourself so profoundly. Not according to some psychologists or some psychoanalyst, they too have to be analyzed (LOL). So without turning to the professionals, as simple laymen, we can observe our own idiosyncrasies and tendencies. Our brain is not a specialist, our brain has been conditioned to war, to hate, to conflict... Can the brain with all it's memories, free itself from it's over-conditioning. You know, it is very simple to answer such questions. If you have been going north all of your life, which is conflict and sorrow, and someone comes along and says that direction leads you nowhere and you agree to move in a different direction, that movement in itself develops a mutation in the very brain cells themselves, because you have broken the patent and the patent must be broken now, not forty years later. Does mankind have the energy and vitality to transform themselves into civilized human beings, not killing each other."