On this page are Quotes by Several Notable Persons regarding
World Citizenship, World Government, and World Peace.
Just as the Second Wave created a slice of the population that had larger than local
interests and became the base for nationalist ideologies, so the Third Wave gives rise to
groups with larger than national interests. These form the base of the emerging globalist
ideology sometimes called 'planetary consciousness.'
Alvin Toffler, "The Third Wave"
All our political parties of the industrial world, all our congresses, parliaments and
supreme soviets, our presidencies and prime ministerships, our courts and our regulatory
agencies and our layer upon geographical layer of government bureaucracy -- in short, all
the tools we use to make and enforce collective decisions -- are obsolete and about to be
transformed. A Third Wave civilization cannot operate with a Second Wave political
structure.
Alvin Toffler, "The Third Wave"
Today, although its gravity is not yet recognized, we are witnessing a profound crisis,
not of this or that government, but of representative democracy itself, in all its forms.
Alvin Toffler, "The Third Wave"
Independence is my happiness and I view things as they are without regard to place or
person. My country is the world, my religion is to do good and all men are my brothers.
Tom Paine
As to what are called national religions, we may , with as much propriety, talk of
national Gods. It is either political craft or the remains of the Pagan system, when every
nation had its separate and particular deity.
Tom Paine, The Rights of Man, p. 272
There is something exceedingly ridiculous in the composition of Monarchy. It first
excludes a man from the means of communication, yet empowers him to act in cases where the
highest judgment is required...A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight
hundred thousand "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its
best state is but a necessary evil." sterling a year, and worshipped in the bargain.
Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God than all the crowned
ruffians that ever lived....In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and
give away places; which in plain terms is to impoverish the nation and set it together by
the ears.
Tom Paine
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot
will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now,
deserves the love and thanks of man and women. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily
conquered....If there be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Tom Paine
I call not upon the few, but upon all; not on this state or that state, but on every
state: up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than
too little, when so great an object is at stake. Let it be told to the future world, that
in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and
the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and repulse it...
Tom Paine
Let them call me as rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer
the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one
whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man...
Tom Paine
"The cause of American is in great measure the cause of all mankind. Many
circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which
the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which, their
affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring
war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from
the face of the earth, is the concern of every man in whom nature hath given the power of
feeling; of which class, regardless of party censure, is the author."
Tom Paine
The people of the world must understand the forces driving them toward the coming
holocaust. It has nothing whatever to do with Communism or capitalism, with individualism
or collectivism, It is the inevitable conflict between nonintegrated sovereignties in
contact.
Emery Reves, Anatomy of Peace
We believe that we can protect ourselves against inter-national wars only through the
establishment of constitutional life in world affairs, and that such universal Law must be
created in conformity with the democratic process, by freely elected and responsible
representatives.
The exercise of learning to live on a planet of limited resources and a very intricate
interdependence is the challenge of our times.
Angela Harkavy, "The Earth Charter"
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world;
indeed, it's the only thing that ever does.
Margaret Mead
I believe we are nearing a world state - and then, and only then, peace will reign.
David Ben-Gurion, First Prime Minister of Israel
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny
or disparage others retained by the people.
Ninth Amendment, United States Constitution
"As we close a chapter of exclusion and a chapter of heroic struggle, we reaffirm
our determination to build a society of which each of us can be proud, as South Africans,
as Africans, and as citizens of the world."
President Nelson Mandela,10 December, 1996
"Out of the many Sharpvilles which haunt our history was born the unshakable
determination that respect for human life, liberty and well-being must be enshrined as
rights beyond the power of any force to diminish."
President Nelson Mandela, 10 December, 1966
Peace begins with each one of us....We do not complain at the sorry state of the world.
We take responsibility. We take action. We take charge of our kitchen.
Kushi
Present artificial borderlines between countries are maintained by force or they would
collapse.
Kushi
After all, politics is a matter of serving the community, which means that it is
morality in practice. And how better to serve the community and practice morality than by
seeking in the midst of the global (and globally threatened) civilization their own global
political responsibility: that is, their responsibility for the very survival of the human
race?
Vaclav Havel
We now live in a single global civilization.....our planet has, for the first time in
the long history of the human race, been covered in the space of a very few decades by a
single civilization - one that it essentially technological.
Vaclav Havel
We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various
forms of our spirituality, We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance,
which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the
only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for
the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding
among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create
a new order for the world.
Vaclav Havel
We must discover a new respect for what transcends us; for the universe, for the earth,
for nature, for life and for reality. Our respect for other people, for other nations, and
for other cultures, can only grow from a humble respect for the cosmic order and from an
awareness that we are a part of it, that we share in it and that nothing of what we do is
lost, but rather becomes part of the eternal memory of Being, where it is judged.
Vaclav Havel
It will certainly not be easy to awaken in people a new sense of responsibility for the
world, an ability to conduct themselves as if they were to live on this earth forever, and
to be held answerable for its condition one day.
Vaclav Havel
After all, politics is a matter of serving the community, which means that it is
morality in practice. And how better to serve the community and practice morality than by
seeking in the midst of the global (and globally threatened) civilization their own global
political responsibility: that is, their responsibility for the very survival of the human
race?
Vaclav Havel
What is now at stake is the saving the human race. In other words, it's a question of
what I've already talked about: of understanding modern civilization as a multicultural
and multipolar civilization, of turning our attention to the original spiritual sources of
human culture and above all, of our own culture, of drawing from these sources the
strength for a courageous and magnanimous creation of a new order for the world.
Vaclav Havel
"There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the
creation of a world government."
Albert Einstein
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
We appeal as human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
Albert Einstein, Last public statement
The splitting of the atom has changed everything, save our mode of thinking, and thus
we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe
Albert Einstein
Mankind's desire for peace can only be realized by the creation of a world government.
Albert Einstein
The United Nations is an extremely important and useful institution provided the
peoples and governments of the world realize that it is merely a transitional system
toward the final goal, which is the establishment of a supranational authority vested with
sufficient legislative and executive powers to keep the peace.
Albert Einstein
Henceforth, every nation's foreign policy must be judged at every point by one
consideration: does it lead us to a world of law and order or does it lead us back to
anarchy and death?
Albert Einstein
There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation
of a world government.
Albert Einstein
In the present stage of technical development, only a supranational organization,
equipped with a sufficiently strong executive power can protect us.
Albert Einstein
So long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, was is inevitable., That
is not an attempt to say when it will come, but only that it is sure to come. That was
true before the atomic bomb was made. What has been changed is the destructiveness of war.
Albert Einstein
There is only one path to peace and security: the path of supranational organization.
One-sided armament on a national basis only heightens the general uncertainly and
confusion without being an effective protection.
Albert Einstein
Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;
It is the center hole that makes it useful.
Shape clay into a vessel;
It is the space within that makes it useful.
Cut doors and windows for a room;
It is the hole which make it useful.
Therefore profit comes from what is there;
Usefulness from what is not there.
Lao Tsu
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