| | Author | Date | Quote | | Luvuyo Nongimba | 24/02/2009 | Young people have a potential to do things for themselves, but may need help or guidance on how to channel their energies. Successful, consultative measures can help restore confidence in the political system and in democracy as a whole. |
| MacCormick, Neil | 1941- | What is possible is not independent of what we believe to be possible. The possibility of such developments in the practical world depends upon their being grasped imaginatively by the people who make the practical world work. |
| Mahatma Gandhi | 1869 - 1948 | The right to live is ours only if we accomplish our duty as a world citizen. Nationalism is no longer the highest concept. The supreme concept is a world community. |
| Mason, Peggy | | The current outpouring of help for the tsunami victims among ordinary people in the west is a spectacular reclaiming of the politics of community, morality and internationalism denied them by governments and corporate propaganda. |
| Mbeki, Thabo | 1942- | We need a global and democratic system of political decision-making. |
| McWilliams, Peter | 1950-2000 | A society that punishes people simply for being different, for exploring the rich diversity of human experience, for experimenting with alternate lifestyles - as long as that being, exploration, and experimentation does not physically harm the person or property of another - is a society condemned to pettiness, vindictiveness, crushing conformity, oppression, decay, and ultimately death.
Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do |
| Mead, Margaret | 1901-1978 | Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. |
| Mead, Margaret | 1901-1978 | The Earth Flag is my symbol of the task before us all. Only in the last quarter of my life have we come to know what it means to be custodians of the future of the Earth - to know that unless we care, unless we check the rapacious exploitations of our Earth and protect it, we are endangering the future of our children and our children's children. We did not know this before, except in little pieces. People knew that they had to take care of their own ... but it was not until we saw the picture of the Earth, from the Moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is - something that we must hold in our arms and care for. |
| Mitchell, Edgar | 1930- | "[In outer space] you develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, "Look at that, you son of a bitch."" |
| Monbiot, George | | A parliament for the planet is not a question of removing further powers from nation-states or from their citizens, but of democratizing those powers that are already being wielded supranationally. We need a World Parliament. All of its members should be directly elected. |
| Monnet, Jean | 1888-1979 | The sovereign nations of thepast can no lornger solve the problems of the present... They cannot ensure their own programs or control their own future. An the European communitiy itself is only a stage on the way to the organized world of tomorrow. |
| Montesquieu | 1689 – 1755 | Should I know something useful for me but bad for my family, I would reject it from my mind. Should I know something useful to my family but bad for my Fatherland, I would try to forget it. Should I know something useful to my Fatherland but bad for Europe or useful to Europe but bad (...) for the Human gender, I should consider it as a crime (...), because I am necessarily human, but French only by chance.
My thoughts |
| Morin, Edgar | | We face the planetary necessity of a democratic power capable of an ethical control of the Globalization. We must go towards a world-society. Yet, we lack of a real sense of our common destiny, of our universal belonging to the same world and of a concrete conscience about the deep dangers that threaten the planet |
| Nussbaum, Martha | 1994 | The accident of where one is born is just that, an accident; any human being might have been born in any nation.... We should not allow differences of nationality or class or ethnic membership or even gender to erect barriers between us and our fellow human beings. We should recognize humanity whenever it occurs, and give its fundamental ingredients, reason and moral capacity, our first allegiance and respect... |
| Nussbaum, Martha | 1994 | The invitation to think as a world citizen [is], in a sense, an invitation to be an exile from the comfort of patriotism and its easy sentiments, to see our own ways of life from the point of view of justice and the good. The accident of where one is born is just that, an accident; any human being might have been born in any nation. Recognizing this, [...], we should not allow differences of nationality or class or ethnic membership or even gender to erect barriers between us and our fellow human beings. We should recognize humanity wherever it occurs, and give its fundamental ingredients, reason and moral capacity, our first allegiance and respect. |
| Paine, Thomas | 1737 - 1809 | My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. |
| Patomäkim, Teivainen | | Global civil society can be conceived as a new transformative political force. Civil society can also be seen as a space and a set of social forces to contest laisez faire capitalism and democratise economies.
Global Democracy Initiatives: The art of Possible |
| Patomäkim, Teivainen | | Democracy is best conceived as a process of democratization
Global Democracy Initiatives: The art of Possible |
| Penn, William | 1644-1718 | Peace requires Justice; Justice requires Law; Law requires Government, not only within Nations but equally between Nations. |
| Penn, William | 1644-1718 | Peace is maintained by Justice, which is a Fruit of Government as Government is from Society, and Society from Consent. |
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