
“We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.”
Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,(15 May 2006)]
Address of 1964, republished in Portfolio for Peace (1968), p. 14
Context: Two world wars were fought to make the world safe for democracy. Today we have to wage a war on all fronts. This war has to be waged in peace time, but it has to be waged as energetically and with as much total national effort as in times of war. The war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?
“We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.”
Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University,(15 May 2006)]
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
1962, Address at Independence Hall
Context: Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world; we cannot insure its domestic tranquility, or provide for its common defense, or promote its general welfare, or secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. But joined with other free nations, we can do all this and more. We can assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty. We can balance our worldwide trade and payments at the highest possible level of growth. We can mount a deterrent powerful enough to deter any aggression. And ultimately we can help to achieve a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion.
Zelensky’s speech at the UN General Assembly https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vistup-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-na-zagalnih-57477 (25 September 2019)
“Nothing matters if we aren't safe… The world has never been more dangerous than it is today.”
As quoted in "America's Next Top Fearmonger: The presidential candidates compete to scare the daylights out of the U.S. public." http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america%E2%80%99s-next-top-fearmonger-12954 (22 May 2015), by Robert Golan-Vilella, National Interest.
2010s, 2015
2010s, 2013, In defense of Obama’s drone war (2013)
On Coalition Government (1945)
Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 250
“I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy”
Source: A Coney Island of the Mind