Absolutes Quote by Chuck Hagel

In addition to world conflicts, the most challenging problem we face today is hunger, deprivation and social injustice. Because we're ruled by separate self-interest,…

— Satish Kumar

Lack of understanding of interrelatedness has caused numerous divisions and conflicts that are the cause of many major challenges in the world such as…

— Lobsang Tenzin

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

— Brenda Shoshanna

Our world faces many grave challenges: Widening conflicts and inequality. Extreme weather and deadly intolerance. Security threats - including nuclear weapons. We have the…

— Antonio Guterres

Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a…

— Martin Nowak

We live in a state-centric world faced with global-scale problems that cannot be met by the actions of single states, no matter how powerful,…

— Richard A. Falk

I believe that there is a whole set of issues in the world - environment, proliferation, energy, cyberspace - that can only be dealt…

— Henry A. Kissinger

For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

— Noam Chomsky

Let's look at human interactions. I really believe that there is a way for us to settle disputes nonviolently, using our minds, using all…

— Lenny Kravitz

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

— John Adams

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

— Robert Gilpin

Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of…

— Geoff Mulgan