Quotes on Mobilization

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.

It is important to distinguish between the power of the internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.