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Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick.


Jeremy Paxman


#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic

Mankind's problems can no longer be solved by national governments. What is needed is world government.


Jan Tinbergen


#governments #longer #mankind #national #needed

Today, the people are governing the governments. And when they begin to talk to each other, they are surprised, they can be friends. Why should we hate each other?


Shimon Peres


#each #friends #governing #governments #hate

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.


Richard Perle


#european #european governments #governments #hesitated #more

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.


Richard Perle


#choose #european #european governments #force #governments

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.


Wendell Phillips


#few #friends #governments #loved #many

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.


Wendell Phillips


#debt #disease #fatal #first #first thing

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.


Plato


#change #direction #excess #generally #governments

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.


John Charles Polanyi


#breadth #claims #commitment #contract #declaration

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.


Ludwig Quidde


#between #danger #disarm #disarmament #distrust






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