Shoghi Effendi Quotes

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.

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. .

A world authority and an eventual world state are not just desirable in the name of brotherhood, they are necessary for survival.

If local civil government is necessary for local civil peace, then world civil government is necessary for world peace.

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

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

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.

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

How pathetic indeed are the efforts of those leaders of human institutions who, in utter disregard of the spirit of the age, are striving to adjust national processes, suited to the ancient days of self-contained nations, to an age which must either achieve the unity of the world … or perish.

Thus may be envisioned a United States of the World. Ultimately, it will surely come.

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.

The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

And this is the best chance to begin to establish the New World Order.

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.

In the past, a blow to the international system's strongest power would have been welcomed by its rivals. In the wake of September 11, however, every significant government in the world declared its support for the United States.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

For virtually every area of public policy there is a globalist proposal, consistent with the overall objective of reducing individual nation-state autonomy, particularly that of the United States?

No country can dictate its laws to the world.

The United Nations is a foolish attempt at world government inspired by Satan.

Attempts to run the world generate resistance.

World Government has been the goal of a power-driven and self-perpetuating conspiracy for some six generations. Military conquest hasn’t achieved the goal. Wars and revolutions haven’t accomplished it either. So the master planners have turned to misnamed free trade and seemingly innocuous economic unions to reach their independence-cancelling design.

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

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.