Victor Hugo Quotes

Thus may be envisioned a United States of the World. Ultimately, it will surely come.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

Unification of the whole of mankind is the hall-mark of the stage which human society is now approaching. Unity of family, of tribe, of city-state, and nation have been successively attempted and fully established. World unity is the goal towards which a harassed humanity is striving. Nation-building has come to an end. The anarchy inherent in state sovereignty is moving towards a climax. A world, growing to maturity, must abandon this fetish, recognize the oneness and wholeness of human relationships, and establish once for all the machinery that can best incarnate this fundamental principle of its life. .

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

World federation is an ideal that will not die. More and more people are coming to realize that peace must be more than an interlude if we are to survive; that peace is a produce of law and order; that law is essential if the force of arms is not to rule the world.

An awareness of the need for some kind of global government is gaining ground, one in which all members of the world community would take part.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

Chile announces a new refuge in these countries for the industry, the friendship, and all the citizens of the globe

No nation can stand against a wold united.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

A world authority and an eventual world state are not just desirable in the name of brotherhood, they are necessary for survival.

I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in his own good time, to become one nation ...

I am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.

World government will come, but we do not know the date.

… my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders

I think one of the big challenges facing modern liberalism is that there's not a great emotional appeal to an international identity, like a citizen-of-the-world identity.

I'd like to see the whole world.