Amitai Etzioni quotes:

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.