Isaac Asimov Quotes

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.

I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

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.

The world state is inherent in the United Nations as an oak tree is in an acorn.

This organization [the United Nations] is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

World government is a premature concept at this stage. We are moving more and more into supernational arrangements, but it is too early still.

We shall have world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World government will be achieved by conquest or consent.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective- a new world order-can emerge... We are now in sight of a United Nations that performs as envisioned by its founders.

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.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

They were unable to stand up and say: 'Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.'

As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

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

The question is, what are we to do in order to consolidate peace on a universal and durable foundation, and what are the essential elements of such a peace?

To solve the problem of organizing world peace we must establish world law and order.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are actually members of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in many areas.

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.