Democracy Quote by Sharan Burrow

Conflicts between nations will continue to arise. The real issue is whether they are to be resolved by force, or by resort to peaceful…

— Haile Selassie

If the U.N. is ineffective, the whole concept of multilateralism will collapse.

— Sushma Swaraj

This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition,…

— Shashi Tharoor

When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries is in danger.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Almost all modern governments are highly conscious of what journalism calls ‘world opinion.’ For sound reasons, mostly of an economic nature, they cannot afford…

— Sebastian Marshall

In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to…

— Barack Obama

Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups…

— Pal Schmitt

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable…

— Michael Howard

The nations of the world are becoming more and more dependent on one another and it will not be possible to preserve a lasting…

— Pope John XXIII

It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus.…

— Jimmy Carter

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Great-power politics is tragic because the structure of the international system forces states that seek only to be secure nonetheless to act aggressively toward…

— John Mearsheimer