“Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.” KindMayLongRealReasonPoliticsForcePeaceDifferencesJusticePowerProgressAcceptanceBalanceDiversitySpringRelationIndependenceInternationalToleranceChecksRecognitionInternalsMutualSpheresIndividualismAssuredVitalityInternational RelationsToleration Book:Why Don't We Learn from History? Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?
“John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.” WorldWellsTwoShowsTogetherEnvironmentPiecesProgressGroupsFieldsMarkRelationMedicineIncludingInternationalExpertsRemarkablePessimismDiversePhilanthropyEssaysLooking ForwardFashionableInternational RelationsBetter FutureScience ReligionPhysical ScienceExemplaryStellar Author:Rupert Murdoch
“We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests.” WorldHumansMeanNationsGoalInterestRightsProgressAchieveEconomicsIndependenceFundamentalsIntentionAffairInternationalHuman RightsStabilityHonorableGood WillWorld Affairs Book:Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983 Source: Building peace through strength: August 23, 1983
“Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.” ArtSpaceProgressUniqueInternationalValuableArchitectureHostDiscourse Author:Thom Mayne
“That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.” SaidStatesTermInterestEnvironmentProgressDyingMinesIndustryProtectDemocratInternationalSenateEmbarrassedCoalShort TermFuriousSlag Author:Denis Hayes
“Japan became an imperialist country in many ways, but that was much later, after it had already made big progress. I dont think Japans wealth was based on exploiting China. Japans wealth was based on its expansion in international trade.” ThinkingWayMadeCountryBigsWealthProgressTradeInternationalChinaJapanExpansionInternational Trade Author:Amartya Sen
“All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences.” MenMatterWantedUsedOrderJusticeAliveProgressStageHe ManConsequenceCrisisInternationalCriminalsEtcNormAtrocitiesOrderlyApocalypticCrusades Author:Edward Said
“On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.” PeopleWantYearsKindMadeWarCountryStatesGovernmentHappensUnitedLeaderUnited StatesProgressMajorsWeaponsYears AgoSouthInternationalNuclearThings HappenMade ItOfficialsFiftyNuclear WeaponsPersistKoreaNorth KoreaOutcastSouth KoreaCeasefire Author:Jimmy Carter
“If we want to make progress in key areas now, we have to build a multi-stakeholder process, harnessing the appropriate energies. So not only the politicians but also business, the wider civil society, and the trade union movement all have a contribution to make, whether it is at national or at international level.” IfsWantEnergyProcessLevelsProgressMovementKeysPoliticianAreasTradeUnionsInternationalContributionAppropriateCivil SocietyTrade UnionsStakeholder Author:Mary Robinson