Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of di…

- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

If we want world peace, we must break the vicious circle of violence and reprisal, of an eye for an eye, of endless hate.

- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

World peace is threatened not only by weapons of mass destruction but also by conventional weapons which have led to countless violations of human ri…

- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace.

- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings abou…

- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine what the…

- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Education is necessary to unlearn privilege, unlearn exclusion, unlearn discrimination, unlearn prejudice, unlearn war.

- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by …

- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

The war industries in many countries and the enormous trade in weapons of all kinds generate corruption and fuel conflict throughout the world. The e…

- Alfred-Maurice De Zayas