Great Goals

By Barbara Jordan, Luke Perry, Camille Paglia, Sharon Stone, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Updike, Akio Morita, August / Wilson, Francis Fukuyama, Bill Cosby, Martin Marty, Pat Robertson, Patricia Schroeder, Lady Antonia Fraser, Sinead O''Connor, Mike Myers

BARBARA JORDAN

LAWYER, EDUCATOR

We need to restore a sense of the common good in America. Tolerance must become an idea that is honored and respected, particularly toward nations that are different from us. But hunger should not be tolerated. It's a moral principle that people should be able to eat a meal when they want to. The sight of hunger any place on the globe should be banished.

LUKE PERRY

ACTOR

If we're going to continue -- not just in America but on this planet -- to engage in armed conflicts and send men off to war, we've got to be prepared to deal with the problems these veterans have when they come back. I don't think realistically we've ever done that with any of the conflicts this country has been in.

CAMILLE PAGLIA

CULTURAL CRITIC

We should smash the current educational curriculum. I see the multiculturalism being peddled now as a fraud. History is being distorted. It is regarded as nothing but a record of pain, oppression, disaster and atrocities. My master plan for world understanding is a new kind of education based on comparative religion and archaeology, on an arts-centered curriculum. I am also calling for a Reform feminism instead of the hatred of men now being peddled. Feminism must turn back toward men.

SHARON STONE

ACTRESS

Peace of mind, peace of heart and generosity of spirit.

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ

AUTHOR

The only new idea that could save humanity in the 21st century is for women to take over the management of the world. I believe that male hegemony has squandered an opportunity of 10,000 years. We men have belittled and ridiculed feminine intuition, and on the other hand, we have historically sanctified our ideologies, almost all of them absurd or abominable. The masculine power structure has proved that it cannot impede the destruction of the environment, because it is incapable of overcoming its own interests. For women, on the other hand, preservation of the environment is a genetic vocation. The reversal of powers is a matter of life or death.

JOHN UPDIKE

AUTHOR

) The agenda for the next millennium should be to bring earth's population growth to a standstill and to reduce the gap between rich and poor. The rich may have to get poorer. If humanity accomplishes its own survival, along with that of a few other big animals and the life in the sea, it will do well. As to entertainment and sports, I would be content with less of both.

AKIO MORITA

SONY CHAIRMAN

The most important thing for man's survival is technology. And the most important issue facing mankind is related to the decline of the educated population. To allow humankind to coexist happily, we have to provide more opportunities for education. Currently television is misused, utilized mostly for entertainment. But I think TV entertainment can be a means for education, as Sesame Street has been. There should be a global project to launch a satellite for this purpose. And perhaps we could operate TVs with solar energy.

AUGUST WILSON

PLAYWRIGHT

We should make greed the sin of all sins, so that greedy people all over the planet are shunned. It is greed that leads to thievery, lying, cheating and stealing, which leads to wars, which leads to murders, which leads to all sorts of other things. Unless we succeed, I don't know that we are going to see a 22nd century.

FRANCIS FUKUYAMA

POLITICAL SCIENTIST

The central project of humanity has got to be something like restoration of a sense of community. The problem is the inherent tension between democracy and community. Giving up some individual rights to communities may be a necessary price. You cannot have the kind of culture that absolutizes human rights at the same time you strive for community. One has to come at the expense of the other.

BILL COSBY

COMEDIAN, PRODUCER

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. It happens, it becomes war, and then we spend human bodies, money and intellect to stop it.

MARTIN MARTY

THEOLOGIAN

We have to save the environment. We aren't going to be reached by other planets, and we aren't going to reach other planets, so this has to work out. It's within the coming century that it will be decided whether it lasts or not. Someone once said, "If we don't survive, we don't do anything else either."

PAT ROBERTSON

EVANGELIST

We must earnestly seek moral and spiritual revival so that mankind will live + in peace in accord with God's law. The world's ethical standards must keep pace with its technological advances. We should also try to establish a Society of Democratic Nations to guarantee the rule of law and order, free trade, proper stewardship of the environment and the sanctity of human rights.

PATRICIA SCHROEDER

U.S. CONGRESSWOMAN

The most important goal for the 21st century is family planning for everyone. That is the environmental issue. You can plant a billion trees and clean up every stream, but it wonUt make a difference if we double the population in the next 20 years. Now scientists are trying to enable women to have babies when they're 80. Please don't make me more fertile.

LADY ANTONIA FRASER

HISTORIAN, AUTHOR

The extraordinary disparities between rich and poor are becoming more visible because of technological advances. Perhaps because I am a Catholic, I think the worldwide knowledge of these disparities through our TV screens, cables, faxes and telephones makes us more culpable for them than before. I would like to see these advances used not only to spread information about famine, for example, but to distribute foodstuffs to the hungry. If stock exchanges buy and sell all around the world, surely the same technology can be used to shift food around as needed.

SINEAD O'CONNOR

SINGER

We need to realize that all things that are making our lives hell now -- alcoholism or drug addiction, rape or murder, hatred or greed, power or war -- have all been caused by child abuse, which has been caused by the desire for material success. The child is traumatized, though he can't remember what happened to him. Evil is the root of child abuse and, if we stamp out child abuse, we'll be bringing God back, and that will cure everything.

MIKE MYERS

COMEDIAN

(Wayne's World)

Be nice. Tend to have fun rather than not to have fun. Have gainful employment, a really cool girl friend, great tunes and a good pick-up game of hockey twice a week.

With reporting by Ratu Kamlani and Katherine L. Mihok