A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes

Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.

As a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.

We are close to a time when all of humankind will envision a global agenda that encompasses a kind of Global Marshall Plan to address the causes of poverty and suffering and environmental destruction all over the earth.

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.

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development.

Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.

All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.

it must be right to suggest that all countries should use their resources so as to advance the right to development for their people in an equitable manner and that all countries should cooperate for the mutual achievement of the right to development. The alternative to such a policy framework is a Darwinian world of market-oriented capitalism with no social or human rights safety nets. How can developing countries survive in such a world?

Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

We're on our own on spaceship Earth. So we have to solve our own problems.

All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.

Ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition.

We have the means of removing starvation and disease. We have almost unlimited power in sight, that can make the waste lands bloom. We have the possibility of banishing disease.... We ... can learn the truth and ... tell it to one another throughout a healthy world that is secure against the ravages of nature. It is the setting for a world of peace and unity. One thing is lacking. Good will and understanding.

More goods and fewer people" is the slogan I should like to see carried at the head of humanity's march into the future.

National security is not only building war machines to kill. National security is as much a policy of the living who prefer life over death, wellness over sickness, work over idleness, education over illiteracy, and food over hunger.

Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery.

I would rather have indissoluble ties of righteous trade promote international friendship than all the compacts ever written in the world.

… only today, or yesterday at the earliest, after the long millenniums of man's life on this planet, has he acquired the technical skill, the command over the forces of nature, the physical power to produce enough and more for all his children upon the face of the earth.

This age of globalization is marked by the adoption of universal principles governing such matters as democracy, human rights, trade and development.

It is past time to acknowledge that economic growth … is good, and that what the world needs is more of it.

The United States … has never been isolated, never can be isolated, and has no desire to be isolated. The people of the United States are not only ready but willing and desirous to help their fellow-men, especially those of western civilization, in any way that is possible.

Since the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” humans have done extraordinary things. We stabilized the stratospheric ozone layer; we connected people in instantaneous and previously unimaginable ways; we landed a golf cart on Mars and drove it around. We even got every nation-state on earth (except ours, apparently) to agree to try to achieve net zero greenhouse-gas emissions by midcentury.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

Our world is moving forward on climate change. If Australia goes backwards, we will be going alone.