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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.

— Garry Davis Letters to World Citizens (2004)

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Peace doesn't come through hope, prayer or time; we have to reach out and grasp what is within reach.

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

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I would secede from the old and declare the new.

My Country is the World (1984)

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.

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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.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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