 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
It may be thought needlessly Utopian to consider world government, since it remains totally impossible so long as the East-West tension continues. ... A statement of this sort is found annoying, because people do not like changing their mental habits, and hating certain foreign nations is one of the most deeply ingrained of these habits. . I think, however, that anybody who can resist this unreasoning impulse must perceive that the survival of the human race depends upon the abolition of war, and that war can only be abolished by the establishment of a world government.
Source: Bertrand Russell: What is Democracy, 1953.
Reprinted in: Fact and Fiction, 1961 (G. Allen & Unwin Ltd.), p.92
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