Herbert Marcuse: I am very happy to see so many flowers here, and that is why I want to remind you that flowers, by themselves, have no power whatsoever, other than the power of men and women who protect them and take care of them against aggression and destruction. As a hopeless philosopher from whom philosophy has become inseparable from politics, I am afraid I have to give here today a rather a rather philosophical speech and I must ask your indulgence for it. We are dealing with the dialectics of liberation. Actually redundant, because I believe that all dialectic is liberation, and not only liberation in an intellectual sense, but liberation involving the mind and the body, liberation involving the entire human existence. Now as to today and our own situation. I think we are faced with a novel situation in wisdom, because today we have to be liberated from a relatively well-functioning, rich powerful society. [...]
The call of light, of beauty and daring has brought us here today to this Assembly, to bestow upon us the joy of friendship, of inspiration and discovery, to elevate our thoughts and strivings more purely and boldly towards the world of the beautiful. The Universe has been created according to the laws of beauty, and it is according to the laws of beauty that mankind is called upon to live. The imperative of evolution, the inevitability of development, the necessity for perfection keep the fire of life forever burning. It burns up and destroys the old, clears the way for the new, elevates and in ascending the steps towards perfection asserts new forms of life that have more brightly embraced the light and exist in consonance and harmony with the whole – a flaming bird, a Phoenix, which rises from its own ashes again and again, more beautiful and fiery, striving towards the future.
The F.I.F.A. Congress in Rome has proved the absolute necessity for strengthening the continent Organisations by clearly defining their relationship with F.I.F.A. and the National Associations: to solve these questions the Congress extraordinary in London in 1961 must prove both dedicated and decisive.[...]
[…] Die [FIFA-]Generalversammlung der nationalen Fußballverbände ist heute eine zweitrangige Veranstaltung, deren wichtigste Aufgabe neben der Wahl des Verbandspräsidenten die Vergabe der Weltmeisterschaft und die Anpassung der Statuten im Hinblick auf interkontinentale Angelegenheiten......