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Quotes from Letters to World Citizens — Garry Davis

1921–2013 United States

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The H-Bomb is Absolute or total in its physical power. The United World Government is Absolute or total in its spiritual or qualitative power.

Letters to World Citizens (2004)

Yesterday's science fiction is today's prosaic, everyday reality.

Letters to World Citizens (2004)

As law... seeks to express man's moral nature... certain laws may be regarded as "good" and others... "bad," depending on their conformity with accepted moral standards.

Letters to World Citizens (2004)

Til now the common social contract which links you dialectically to Mankind has not been precisely formulated. ...[w] have declared existent a government which transcends the nation-state.

Letters to World Citizens (2004)

Killing is murder; plundering is thievery; destroying another's property is criminal. Yet for the soldier killing is essential, plundering is standard practice, destroying property is "winning the battle."

Letters to World Citizens (2004)

Dedicated to those humans who... gazed... at the blue globe called "home," seeing no artificial boundaries, nations or races... experiencing the epiphanous... wholeness or holiness of their fated mission in infinite space.

Letters to World Citizens (2004)

[T]he H-bomb exists because... we only consider ourselves as belonging to a part of the whole... So the H-Bomb is a mere reflection of our ignorance...

Letters to World Citizens (2004)

[W]e have opened roll books. Our names and the names of those who stand with us are inscribed thereon. ...[W]e are issuing passports to identify each citizen who stands with us.

Letters to World Citizens (2004)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Garry Davis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.