Author | Date | Quote |
Pope John Paul II | 1920-2005 | he 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. |
Pullman, Phil | 2000 | At about then she found an adjustement being made in her mind, as the world creatures become the word people. These beings weren't human, but they were people, she told herself; it's not them, they're us (The Amber Spyglass) |
R. Buckminster Fuller | | If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on HOW I am and WHAT I do, HOW would I be ? WHAT would I do ? |
Reves, Emery | | World Government is not an 'ultimate goal' but an immediate necessity. In fact, it has been overdue since 1914. The convulsions of the past decades are the clear symptoms of a dead and decaying political system. |
Rifkin, Jeremy | 1943- | A new generation could trespass the narrow limits of nationalism and start to think and act as a simple member of human race. |
Rischard, JeanFrançoise | | On our increasingly small and interconnected planet... global problems cannot be solved within any one nation-state. They call for collective and collaborative action -something that the nations of the world have never been good at. ...The current international system i simply not effective enough -or fast enough- to solve these problems. |
Roncalli, Angelo Giuseppe, Pope John XXIII | 1981-1963 | Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authority endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions: that is, of public authority which is in a position to operate in an effective manner on a world-wide basis. The moral order itself, therefore, demands that such a form of public authority be established." |
Rorty, Richard | 1931- | It would have been better if the globalization of economy had started after the creation of a World Federation capable of promoting a global welfare state, that is to say: a supranational government that could guarantee a certain level of Justice and Equality among nations and within them. Unfortunately, the global economy became a reality before had been possible to create what Tennyson called ‘The Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World |
Russell, Bertrand | 1872-1970 | Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death. |
Russell, Bertrand | 1872-1970 | Our world needs a rational and creative hope that procures a positive sense to our lives. Our goal, I repeat, should be the creation of a world government. And, if it gets possible, the humanity will entry a period of prosperity and welfare completely unknown in our last experience as specie. |
Saldich, Bob | | If you accept that the best organizing principle for cities, counties, states and nations is democracy, how can you argue against a similar approach at the global level ? It is becoming more and more clear that there are important problems, which are too big to be solved at the national level; for example the problem of global environment. Presently, the only available system is the treaty system but it is inadequate. It is a patch, not an enduring solution for a globalizing world |
Savio, Roberto | | With the decline of the nation-state and with the growing process of globalization of people through new technologies, it becomes imperative to allow a direct input of the people of the world to help solve global problems The creation of a World Parliament would give direct access to the citizens of the world in a way that cannot be done by multilateral institutions and by international agreements. |
Schumacher, Ernst Friedrich | 1930-1977 | We must do the right thing, and not bother our heads with whether we will succeed, because if we do not do the right thing we will be doing the wrong thing, and then we will be part of the problem not part of the soltution. |
Sebreli, Juan José | | In the present technological and economic context the creation of a World Parliament is no longer an utopia. During the next years, the constitution of supra-national democratic institutions will be the only relevant task for Politic. |
Sebreli, Juan José | | In the present technological and economical framework, the creation of a World Parliament is no longer a utopia. During the next years, the constitution of supra-national democratic institutions will be the only relevant task for Politics |
Singer, Peter | 2002 | No government can justify the mass murder of its own citizens. But we have yet to evolve international institutions that can intervene to prevent it. |
Socrates | 469-399 B.C. | I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the World |
Soong, T.V | 1894–1971 | Past failures have not dimmed our hopes that an effective world instrument to dispense and enforce justice will arise from the terrors, sufferings and sacrifices of this war; for such an international government, China, with all other liberty-loving nations, will gladly cede such of its sovereign powers as may be required." |
Soros, George | | ...true sovereignty belogns to the people, who in turn delegate it to their governments. If governments abuse the authority entrustes to them and citizens have no opportunity to correct such abuses, outside interference is justified. By specifying that sovereignty is based on the people, the international community can penetrate nation-states' borders to protect the rights of citizens. In particular, the principle of the people's sovereignty can help solve two modern challenges: the obstacles to delivering aid effectively to sovereign states, and the obstacles to global collective action dealing with states experiencing internal conflicts. |
Steinem, Gloria | 1934- | ...The point of a nation is not to draw a line in the sand and keep its members behind it, but to create world citizens who are secure enough to treat others equally. |