Fidel Castro Quotes

... we have been warned by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself ... There must be law, steadily invoked and respected by all nations, for without law, the world promises only such meager justice as the pity of the strong upon the weak.

I think progressives understand that we are Americans at the same time as we are global citizens. We are interested first and foremost in creating peace and prosperity here at home, but we aren't blind to the fact that injustice anywhere in the world is meaningful, important, and worth thinking about.

World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.

There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

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

Only a strong America can guarantee a peaceful world.

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

The consequence is that what is called "the Law of Nations" is a savage code. The world will never be civilized until there is an international court. Savages begin to be civilized when they submit their difficulties to their peers. Nations will become civilized when they submit their difficulties to a great court, the judgments of which can be carried out, all nations pledging the cooperation of their armies and their navies for that purpose

To the creators of the League of Nations who originated the first serious efforts to a better understanding between nations

Ours will neither be a perfect world, nor a world without disagreement and occasional violence. But it will be a world where the overwhelming majority of national leaders will consistently abide by the rule of world law, and those who won't will be dealt with effectively and with due process by the structures of that same world law..

I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve, and not to dominate, the world.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

The founders of the United Nations sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed.... But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.

China has an interest that's very much like ours in one respect, and that is they want a stable world. They don't want war. They don't want to see protectionism. They don't want to see the world break out into various forms of chaos.

We need a world-wide Department of Peace.

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

I think this country and the world would be far better off if the US is not an outlaw state.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

I know this is maybe naive, but one day I hope there will be peace in the world. Maybe one day the flowers will come back.