"The
age of nations is past, the task before us now, if we
are to survive is to shake off our ancient prejudices,
and build the earth." Teilhard de
Chardin
Peace is the only
battle worth waging.", Albert
Camus
I am a citizen, not
of Athens, or Greece, but of the World"
Socrate (5th Century
B.C.)
"I am a citizen of
the whole world." Diogene
“The only way
to go forward is to put the world law above that of
the states. Making such laws means having a
parliament; this requires us to create a parliament
through worldwide elections where all peoples
participate”. Albert Camus
"Nationalism is no
longer the highest concept. The supreme concept is a
world community." Mahatma
Gandhi
"Science has made
unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with
human survival. The only possibilities are now world
government or death."
Bertrand Russell
Unless we establish
some form of world government, it will not be possible
for us to avert a World War III in the future.
Wiston Churchill, Prime
Minister of Great Britain, 1945
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
"As long as there
are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is
inevitable." Albert Einstein
"Every gun that is
made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who
hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not
clothed. The world in arms is not spending money
alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
President Dwight D.
Eisenhower
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
"There must be, not
a balance of power, but a community of power; not
organized rivalries, but an organized common peace."
President Woodrow
Wilson
"There are no
nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come
to understand that right soon, there will be no
nations, because there will be no humanity."
Isaac Asimov
"I am convinced
that the Great Framer of the world will so develop it
that it becomes one nation, so that armies and navies
are no longer necessary." Ulysses S. Grant
"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
"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
"There is no
salvation for civilization, or even the human race,
other than the creation of a world government."
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 by
all nations, for without law, the world promises only
such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the
weak." President Dwight D.
Eisenhower
"We must create
world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw
world-wide war and weapons"
President John F.
Kennedy
"We seek to
strengthen the United Nations, to help solve its
financial problems, to make it a more effective
instrument for peace, to develop it into a genuine
world security system.capable of resolving disputes
on the basis of law, of insuring the security of
the large and the small, and of creating conditions
under which arms can finally be abolished. The will
requires a new effort to achieve world law."
President John F.
Kennedy
"There is an
increasing awareness of the need for some form of
global government." Mikhail
Gorbachev
"...a fraction of
the sovereignty of independent nation states will have
to be given up for the security of the whole world."
S. Radhakrishnan
"There is enough
bad in people to make law necessary, and enough good
in people to make it workable."
--- Source unknown
"It will be just as
easy for the 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." President Harry
Truman
"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
"Today the
universal common good presents us with problems which
are world-wide in their dimensions; problems,
therefore, which cannot be solved except by a public
authority with power, organization and means
co-extensive with these problems, and with a
world-wide sphere of activity. Consequently the moral
order itself demands the establishment of some such
general form of public authority.
Pope John XXIII , Encyclical
"Pacem
in Terris", art 137
(1963, 11th April)
"World federalism
is an idea that will not die. More and more people are
coming to realize that peace must be more than an
interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a
product of law and order; that law is essential if the
force of arms is not to rule the world.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
William O. Douglas
"Patriotism in its
simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is
nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the
government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a
renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and
conscience by the governed..."
Leo Tolstoy
"Till the war-drum
throbb'd no longer,
and the battle-flags were furl'd
In the Parliament of man,
the Federation of the world."Alfred Lord
Tennyson
"Peace is
maintained by Justice, which is a Fruit of Government
as Government is from Society, and Society from
Consent.” William Penn
"We shall live
together as brothers or die together as fools"
Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.
"In my opinion the
only salvation for civilization and the human race
lies in the creation of a world government, with
security of nations founded upon law. As long as
sovereign states continue to have separate armaments
and armament secrets, new world wars will be
inevitable.”, Albert
Einstein
"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
"... 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, 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
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 sufficient imagination and courage
to translate the universal wish for peace - which is
rapidly becoming a necessity - into actuality."
General Douglas MacArthur,
July 5, 1961
"World federalists
hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living
in peace under a just worl order. The heart of their
program - a world under law - is realistic and
attainable." U.N. Secretary
General U Thant
"Our goals are the
same as those of the U.N.'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."
President Ronald Reagan,
Address to the U.N. General Assembly, Sept 26,
1983
"With all my heart
I believe that the world's present system of sovereign
nations can lead only to barbarism, war and
inhumanity." Albert Einstein
"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. Now when 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." President
Harry S. Truman
"Any scientist can
testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No
national law, no national precautions can save the
planet. The ocean, more than any other part of our
planet, ... is a classic example of the absolute need
for international global action."
Thor Hyerdahl
"A new generation
could trespass the narrow limits of nationalism and
start to think and act as a simple member of human
race." Jeremy Rifkin
"It is obvious that
no difficulty in the way of world government can match
the danger of a world without it."
Carl Van
Doren
"My country is the
world, and my religion is to do good."
Thomas Paine
"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
