Has beens Quote by Betty Sue Flowers

We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being…

— David Grinspoon

Institutions don't change the world in fundamental ways. The way the world changes is heart to heart to heart by individuals, not by institutions.

— Ram Dass

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

We do not make a world of our own, but fall into institutions already made, and have to accommodate ourselves to them to be…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both…

— Betty Sue Flowers

The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible. I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors.…

— Henri La Fontaine

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

— Linda Colley

If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

There comes a time in the life of a nation, as in the life of an individual, when it must face great responsibilities, whether…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations…

— Amitai Etzioni

We desperately need some new thinking today about systems of global governance. We're stuck with the same obsolete, ignore-the-earth institutions that were brough into…

— Jonathon Porritt