Friedrich Hayek Quotes

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

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

The day is coming when no single nation, however powerful, can undertake by itself to keep the peace outside its borders.

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

My main concern is with the world order

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

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

I very much hope that the United States will finally... realise that they can no longer act as the prosecutor, the judge, and the executioner in every part of the world and that they need to cooperate to resolve issues.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

The international body must have the institutions and powers it needs to do what it is created to do; in other words it must be boldly and openly set up as a super-state on a level above the national sovereignties, and that, in turn, means that the Member States must have accepted in advance as much limitation and subordination of their particular sovereignties as this superior sovereign power requires.

Foreign Policy has to be less foreign.

Governments can expect to act multilaterally or unilaterally—but not have it both ways at the same time.

Multilateralism is the democracy of international society.

You don’t do foreign policy unilaterally. Foreign policy is a team sport.

International institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to be a part of the twentieth century.

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'm not a multilateralist against anybody. I'm a multilateralist because I believe in a multilateral order.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

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 United States can only lead a world that's prepared to follow.

I believe that democracy is the best guarantor for peace and cooperation among nations.

There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

We believe that when all nations adhere to international rules and norms and when we conduct on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect, our nations feel secure, and our economies prosper.

There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.