Ignorance is no blessing, and people should be helped to educate themselves rather than left in comfortable ignorance.

Progress and decline should not be seen as separate things, because one cannot exist without the other.

Diplomacy matters more than war, and an avoided conflict is worth more than a victory won by force.

Citizens should use their own judgment instead of waiting for someone else to tell them what is right.

People should not define themselves by their past, but by the choices they make now.

Good people should judge and punish others only when there is truly no other option.

Progress should come mainly from a fresh view of the known, not from expansion.

Fundamental research on life should be funded publicly, not left only to the market.

Faith should turn us toward others and the world, not toward dissolving the self.

Data systems should let users say what they want without depending on where data is stored.

Freedom should be protected by respecting the laws a community has given itself.

The response to injustice should be refusing to imitate the wrongdoer.

True mastery over life should be sought within, not in the things we own.

Products written with a model should be checked as rigorously as any other intelligence work.

Love is human nature, and hatred is a deviation from it that should not be treated as an equal force.

Children should master reading, arithmetic and the patience to work on something hard before anything else in school.

Children should learn together in the same public school, regardless of the family they come from.

Society deserves progressive change, even if some traditions disappear along the way.

Community health should count for more than each person's right to decide for their own body.

With artificial intelligence, caution matters more than speed, even if it delays progress.