Douglas MacArthur Quotes

Treat the world like a failed state; then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

How do we make the world work?

Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.

So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

In a situation where many national leaders do the same thing and look out for national interests, and with an issue like global warming, you're likely to get no solution, so I think you have to have some kind of ethical trump on some of those issues.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses.

Peace, Bread & Land

No act of government can save the world.

The international community spends much more time and resources managing crises than preventing them. But TV cameras are seldom there when a conflict is avoided, so it is difficult for governments and international organizations to make prevention a priority.

In my first book, 'A Return to Love', I wrote about things in the outer world that need to change - how we need to ameliorate deep poverty, heal the earth, end war.

Global governance needs recalibrating so it works in the public interest of all the world's citizens - not just for the few.

Whenever there is a need to address an issue that has emerged and the U.N. is expected to deal with, we should be ready to do so.

Globalization has much potential. It could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.

Foreign relations should involve human rights, workers' rights, and environmental protection.

A political and economic system that only works for a small group at the top is a system that needs to change.

Globalization can be shaped to ensure that people matter.

We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a system that's making us working harder, and isn't giving us satisfaction. We've got to sit down and decide what the hell we really want to be as human beings.

Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders.

The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global

...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige of that organization