Martinus: Livets Bog, vol. 4, sect. 1514

1514. Even though a number of states have "democratic" rule, the world or terrestrial mankind's various states or nations as a whole are still not "democratic" outwardly towards other states or nations. These units of society or peoples have at one time conquered their territory and its sources of wealth, if any, which are often useful or even essential materials for mankind as a whole and for the promotion of its daily life. But since the peoples or nations concerned regard these products, which are absolutely essential for the whole of mankind, as their own absolutely private property and, in order to defend them, build up a standing army and navy complete with munitions or war machines, there are only two possibilities open to other peoples or the remaining part of mankind if they are to gain access to these vital products, namely either to implement an even greater armament for war, that is, even better munitions, or to subjugate themselves to the usually exorbitant or extortionate purchase prices demanded by the owners of the products. It is absolutely inevitable that this will not create "peace" between the nations or states of the world, but a kind of anarchy. That it can be only the strongest nations and peoples, which means, those that are the most skilled and proficient at waging war or murdering, that become world rulers is only what for thousands of years has been an unshakeable fact.