| | Author | Date | Quote | | Held, David | | Democratic politics must be reformulated in most levels –local, national, regional and global- because each of them is appropriated for different public troubles |
| Held, David | | [The current UN] cannot, almost by definition, be an effective institutional framework to represent the peoples and movements of the world, many of whom require protection from their states and governments. The establishment of an independent assembly of democratic peoples, directly elected by them and accountable to them, is an unavoidable institutional requirement.
Democracy and the Global Order (273). |
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| Jefferson, Thomas | 1743-1826 | May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man… These are grounds of hope for others. |
| Jessup, Philip C. | 1947 | The impulse to establish world government is to be attributed to the insistent human yearning for peace. Fresh experience of war is requisite to provide the drive for active campaigns to check this greatest of all human ills. As each modern war has ended, people have insisted that there must not be another and for a time they have struggled to solve the problem. As the memory of the horror fades with the passage of time, the impulse is blunted, the activity decreases. Differences of opinion on details of program split the ranks and enlistments fall off. We have compulsory service to wage war but not to wage peace. |
| Johnson, Samuel | 1740-1795 | Notihng will be ever attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. |
| Kennedy, John F. | 1917-1963 | We must create world-wide law and law enforcement as we outlaw world-wide war and weapons |
| Knoke, William | | What's really happening is that the nation-state is becoming an anachronism. National governments are too small to regulate global problems [pollution, terrorism, drugs] and too big to solve local problems. |
| Kofi Annan | | Every day it becomes more evident that the global market requires a global citizenship |
| Lakoff, George | | At a time when terrorist threats come from groups of individuals rather than states, when wars occur within nations, when "free markets" exist without freedom, when overpopulation threatens stability, when intolerant cultures limit freedom and promote violence, when international corporations act like oppressive governments, and when the oil economy threatens the planet's future, the central problems in today's world cannot be solved by state-level approaches. The state-level part of the answer is to recognize global interdependence and focus foreign policy on diplomacy, alliances, international institutions and strong defensive and peacekeeping forces, with war as a last resort.
Don't think of an elephant |
| LeFevr, Martin | | Why think in terms of nations, much less the power relations between nations? It's no different than thinking in terms of tribes, and warfare between them. Why take self-interest as a given? People have always been capable of seeing and behaving in terms of the whole. They just defined the whole differently in the past. Psychologically, a whole people used to be the nation, as it was the tribe and clan before that. Now it is factually and irrefutably humankind itself. |
| LeFevr, Martin | | Ironically, human fragmentation of the earth and people is providing the impetus for an evolutionary leap. Hang on. On second thought, don't hang on. |
| LeGuin, Ursula K. | 1929- | How does one hate a country, or love one?... I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is the love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession. ... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of [my home place], but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate.
The Left Hand of Darkness |
| Lennon, John | 1940-1980 | Imagine there’s no countries.
It isn’t hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace. |
| Lorente, Joaquín | | Above everything else, a person is the direction his thoughts take. |
| Luvuyo Nongimba | 25/08/2006 | Let start now to build one world where our young people will live with peace and harmony |
| Luvuyo Nongimba | 25/08/2006 | Let start now to build one world where our young people will live with peace and harmony |
| Luvuyo Nongimba | 01/02/2007 | One World Government will not be possible, if we don't establish a developmental platform for our young people and the time has come for us to act now not tomorrow. |
| Luvuyo Nongimba | 02/10/2007 | A poor person is someone who does not have as adequate a supply of food and clothing or as the average person in his own neighborhood, region, or country. |
| Luvuyo Nongimba | 22/02/2009 | AU should establish youth parliament which will be a way of bringing young people together on a regular basis to discuss issues affecting them in their continent. |
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