World Order Quotes

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure and we build the weapons that will destroy us. We live on the edge of ourselves, terrified of the darkness within. We have harmed, corrupted and ruined, we have made mistakes and deceived.”
― John le Carré

“It was easy to laugh at Fascism when we imagined that it was based on hysterical nationalism, because it seemed obvious that the Fascist states, each regarding itself as the chosen people and patriotic contra mundum, would clash with one another. But nothing of the kind is happening. Fascism is now an international movement, which means not only that the Fascist nations can combine for purposes of loot, but that they are groping, perhaps only half consciously as yet, towards a world-system. For the vision of the totalitarian state there is being substituted the vision of the totalitarian world.”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

“In games, the thing that matters most is the order of things. The game has an algorithm, but the player also must create a play algorithm in order to win. There is an order to any victory. There is an optimal way to play any game.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.”
― Agatha Christie, Destination Unknown

“God is present and God acts only in freedom. He is not present nor does he act in necessity. God is to be found in truth, in Goodness, Beauty and Love, but not in the world order”
― Nikolai Berdyaev

“The only thing you can be sure of, Herr March, is that - whoever wins - still standing when the smoke of battle clears will be the banks of the cantons of Switzerland.”
― Robert Harris

“The world order was changing and what was truly new, here and there… was that the people in power were self-servers who’d no idea about and felt no responsibility towards history.”
― Ali Smith, Winter

“We can view a world order rushing toward collapse with no more concern than the outcome of a horse race; we can see injustice, crime, and misery in their most terrible forms all about us and, if we are not directly affected, register the emotions of a scientist studying white rats in a laboratory... In my opinion, this is a confession of complete moral and spiritual bankruptcy.”
― George Counts

“... this system we call the transnational world order is just feudalism all over again, a set of rules that is anti-ecologic, it does not give back but rather enriches a floating international elite while impoverishing everything else, and so of course the so-called rich elite are in actuality poor as well, disengaged from real human work and therefore from real human accomplishment, parasitical in the most precise sense, and yet powerful too as parasites that have taken control can be, sucking the gifts of human work away from their rightful recipients which are the seven generations, and feeding on them while increasing the repressive powers that keep them in place!”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars

“The rule through pandemic medical and emergency decrees is nothing more than a coup d’état on a worldwide scale and it therefore follows the same patterns, not necessarily in the same order, observed in banana republics:
First, pointing to a threat, lockdown of the borders, and restrictions of the means of transportation; checked.
Second, full control of the media; checked.
Third, declaration of a state of emergency and deployment of forces on the ground; checked.
Fourth, restrictions of assembly and civil rights; checked.
Fifth, repressive measure for those not cooperating; checked.
Sixth, changes to the figures and political scene as some go away and old ones come back; checked.
Seventh, attempt to return to normalcy; checked. - On Tyranny Through Emergency Decrees”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“​More than GM Foods I am afraid of GMM People. Genetically and Mentally Mutated People. The Entire Ecosystem Mutates.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Misdirection is the key to world events.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Ordinary people we meet everywhere with their thoughtful faces reflecting their worried souls are the best proof that there is no good order in the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The world is starved for change”
― Veronica Purcell, Seriphyn Knight Chronicles

“There is as much truth in the COVID-19 case as there was in the claim of existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq under Saddam Hussein. COVID-19 with its antisocial laws is but the traditional coup of power consolidation by the few and the transfer of the valuable goods of the many into their hands. - On the Novel Virus”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Awakening

“The rule through pandemic medical and emergency decrees is nothing more than a coup d’état on a worldwide scale and it therefore follows the same patterns, not necessarily in the same order, observed in banana republics:
First, pointing to a threat, lockdown of the borders, and restrictions of the means of transportation; checked.
Second, full control of the media; checked.
Third, declaration of a state of emergency and deployment of forces on the ground; checked.
Fourth, restrictions of assembly and civil rights; checked.
Fifth, repressive measure for those not cooperating; checked.
Sixth, changes to the figures and political scene as some go away and old ones come back; checked.
Seventh, attempt to return to normalcy; checked. - Tyranny Through Emergency Decrees”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“Unlike other nations that rose earlier in Asia, China is much harder to fit into the Western-led global order.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“It's the chip... It makes us forget we aren't all the same.”
― K. Weikel, Sameness

“What does the happiness on a bear's face tell us when he catches a fish? There's something sickening about the world order: One person's happiness can be someone else's tragedy! There is actually not an order here, but a demonic disorder!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“India will resist a hierarchical order in Asia and a world dominated by China.”
― Shyam Saran, How China Sees India and the World

“Despite its imperial roots, the current war is being waged in a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international order, and an unprecedented resurgence of populist nationalism, last seen in the 1930s, throughout the world. The war clearly indicates that Europe and the world have all but spent the peace dividend resulting from the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and are entering a new, as yet undetermined, era. A new world order, possibly replicating the bipolar world of the Cold War era, is being forged in the flames of the current war. At the time of writing that war is not over, and we do not yet know what its end will bring. But it is quite clear even today that the future of the world in which we and our children and grandchildren will be living depends greatly on its outcome.”
― Serhii Plokhy , The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History