Dante Alighieri Quotes

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. .

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.

One of the first essentials is a policy of unreserved political cooperation with all the nations of the world.

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

The liberals of the world are brothers, everywhere

[A party is] ... a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle on which they are all agreed.

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

Nothing can be imagined better, or more perfect, than the administration of a virtuous man. Besides, when a single man is master, it is more difficult for the enemy to discover his secret counsels and resolutions. When the government is in the hands of many, it is impossible but enmity and hatred must arise among them; for, as every one desires his opinion to be followed, they gradually become mutual enemies

There must … be only one empire, one faith, and one sovereignty in the world.

Europeans must shed their illusions about what they can accomplish in the world on their own. Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that - loose talk.

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations.

One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.

Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.

The Ukrainian opposition should adopt democratic unity as its main principle, and it also must have one leader.

Love is the supreme unifying principle of life.

Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

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.

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.

When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.

See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.