UN General Assembly
1961

8, Seen from a certain angle, peace is simply the maintenance of a situation in which some Power or group of Powers preserves a de facto supremacy, the leading position they have acquired. From the moment that developments in the world tend to modify that de facto supremacy, peace is no longer tolerable, it becomes a danger. This static conception of relative strengths is dangerous to peace. Life is a continuous development, a transformation of the relative strengths among the Powers. This must be calmly admitted, but it need not prevent our making efforts, in a framework of peaceful competition. 9, Unfortunately this state of mind still prevails among certain Powers and it has sometimes been emphasized: