Famous Quotations On World Government And Related Matters
There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government. Albert Einstein
There is an increasing awareness of the need for some form of global government. Mikhail Gorbachev
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future. Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1945
The world no longer has a choice between force and law; if civilization is to survive, it must choose the rule of law. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order. Pope John Paul II
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. Albert Einstein
... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself…. There must be law, steadily invoked and respected, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak. Dwight D. Eisenhower
With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only World law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community. Albert Einstein
Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark…. If ... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share. Winston Churchill
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophes. Albert Einstein
There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace. Woodrow Wilson
Peace is a product of law and order; law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world. U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive. Albert Einstein
No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. Thor Hyerdahl
We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapons. John F. Kennedy
... the emergency committee of atomic scientists, having explored for two years all means other than world government for making responsible the control of atomic energy effective [meaning nuclear weapons, really, and by implication, all weapons of mass destruction], has become convinced that no other method than world government can be expected to prove effective, and that the attainment of world government is therefore the most urgent problem now facing mankind. 1948 UN Resolution
The abolition of war is no longer an ethical question to be pondered solely by learned philosophers and ecclesiastics, but a hard core one for the decision of the masses whose survival is the issue. Many will tell you with mockery and ridicule that the abolition of war can only be a dream-that it is the vague imagining of a visionary. But we must go on or we will go under. We must have new thoughts, new ideas, new concepts. We must break out of the straightjacket of the past. We must have sufficient imagination and courage to translate the universal wish for peace-which is rapidly becoming a necessity-into actuality. General Douglas MacArthur
Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of [democratic] world government are called impractical dreamers. Those "impractical dreamers" are entitled to ask, "What is so practical about war?" Walter Cronkite
World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order. The heart of their program-a world under law-is realistic and attainable. UN Secretary General U Thant
Our goals are the same as those of the UN's founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence. Ronald Reagan in his address to the UN General Assembly, September 26, 1983
It will be just as easy for nations to get along in a republic of the world as it is for you to get along in the republic of the United States. [If] Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas river they don't call out the national guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we can't do that internationally. Harry S. Truman
The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world ... democracy—civilization itself—is at stake. Walter Cronkite
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it. Carl Van Doren
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race…. As a citizen of Germany [before WWII], I saw how excessive nationalism can spread like a disease, bringing tragedy to millions…. I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.... Albert Einstein
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice to ensure health, education and a rough equality of opportunity, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open up a new phase in human history. H.G. Wells
There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin
History is now choosing the founders of the World Federation. Any person who can be among that number and fails to do so has lost the noblest opportunity of a lifetime. Carl Van Doren
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the World. Socrates (5th Century B.C.)
We shall live together as brothers or die together as fools. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. John Lennon | |
