“There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any means to further your cause, since the end justifies the means. As an international community, we must oppose this notion, whether it be in Canada, in the United States, or anywhere else. No cause justifies violence as long as the system provides for change by peaceful means.” IfsMeanLongEndsStatesUseCausesCommunityUnitedUnited StatesViolenceDiseaseNotionInternationalTerrorismPeacefulCanadaJustifyInternational CommunityEnds Justify The Means Author:Richard M. Nixon
“A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.” NeedsLittlesCountryDiseaseResourcesCapacityInternationalTerritoryCombatStaffSevereTransmitOutbreaks Author:Margaret Chan
“The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.” ThinkingWorldMeanEarthFacesDiseaseInternationalWormsWorld HistoryCarterEliminationGuineaSmallpox Author:Jimmy Carter
“Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.” WarPoliticalJusticeEconomicBuildingConflictDiseaseHatredDollarsInjusticeInternationalAttackingDisobedienceStarvationServitudePreoccupationIlliteracyWorld Hunger Author:Daniel Berrigan
“There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.” HumansRealCountryGrowthDemocracySecurityHealthDevelopmentHealthyDiseaseDignityTreatsCrisisInternationalPopulationSpreadSustainabilityNational SecurityNo HopeHuman DignitySustainable DevelopmentMalnutritionTacklingAssisting Author:Gro Harlem Brundtland
“I wonder what sentences judges might hand down at future international criminal tribunals on those who will be partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine, and disease in the decades ahead.” HandsMightScienceEnergyWonderMillionsEnvironmentJudgingDiseaseResponsibleClimate ChangeInternationalSentencesDecadesCriminalsStarvationFamineTribunals Author:Mark Lynas