What force will shake our world and take it forward in the twenty-first century? There is no sign of any social revolutions as yet, unless one counts the ?green revolution? that in some ways seems to want to turn the clock back. We shall have to see - Mick Hume http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/earticle/4058/
UN Secretaries General and people like myself have no real pleasure in dealing with this world?s foul political problems. Our greatest wish is to see the world a happy place, to stay at home and to enjoy each one in his own way the beauty of life: U Thant had his spirituality and meditation, Perez de Cuellar his music, poetry and literature, and I my writings, gardening and love for nature. And most humans are like us - Robert Muller
There is no salvation of civilisation, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government - Albert Einstein
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary - H.L. Mencken (1918)
The trouble with soclialism is that it takes so many weekday evenings - Oscar Wilde
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces - Maureen Murphy
The organisers of this new global politics have overtaken the mighty religious establishments in their capacity to see the world as a whole - http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-G8/poverty_2645.jsp
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution - Hannah Arendt
The international framework of the world is obsolete and antiquated, while the world has undergone the most gigantic changes in human history. Is it not time to have a serious look at the framework and to devise a new, better one? - Robert Muller
The future evolvement of the UN system must respond to these planet -wide, evolutionary needs: 1. Perception: world data, information from the infinitely large to the infinitely small; 2. Recognition and determination of trends, patterns, networks and systems; 3. Visions, objectives, future images of the total world system, of human and planetary evolution; 4. The motor system: decisions, resolutions, volition, inspiration; 5. Identification of the means to act, from large institutions to the individual, from huge common resources to single voluntary actions; 6. Concrete action, from global to local, from the total to the individual; 7. Evaluation of action and progress; 8. Constant course correction - Robert Muller