Unesco Quotes

• Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.

  Country Joe McDonald

  War, Future, Hands

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• UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  United Nations, Conscience, United

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• I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.

  Herbie Hancock

  Moving, Mean, Organization

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• The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

  Bill Bradley

  War, Goal, Progress

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• Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  Irina Bokova

  Education, Children, Future

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• UNESCO provides protection for the great cultural institutions. There is something called the intangible cultural heritage list. And the Italians want to put Neapolitan pizza on it. But in order to do that, you have to show that whatever it is that you're trying to protect is under threat. And pizza is totally under threat from Pizza Hut and Domino's...

  Peter Sagal

  Order, Trying, Lists

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.

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• Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Dream, Reality, Important

  Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.

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• The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

  Ralph Bunche

  Equality, Race, United Nations

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• There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Stronger, Would Be, Bihar

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

  Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

  What Matters, People, United Nations

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• The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

  Gillian Sorensen

  Our World, United Nations, Making Peace

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• Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Struggle, Essence, Perfect

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• The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  Reality, Bihar, Institutions

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Struggle, Political, Lines

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• I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for giving people everywhere, in poorer countries as in richer, a real stake in that peace by promoting development and encouraging cooperation. But the United Nations is only an instrument, an actor in need of props and cues from its directors, And so I will paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give us the tools-the trust, the authority and the means-and we will do the job.

  Kofi Annan

  Trust, Country, Jobs

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• In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

  Kofi Annan

  Believe, Race, Profound

  Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.

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• Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Military, Thinking, Drawing

  The Times, June 27, 1955.

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• If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Order, Organization

  1957 Address to the nation on Israel's invasion of Egypt, 20 Feb.

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• In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Children, School

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• There’s no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, Real, Trying

  "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.

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• If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

  Norman Cousins

  Believe, Fighting, Advocating

  "The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction". Book by Jussi M. Hanhimäki, 2015.

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• The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world.

  Trygve Lie

  Real, Race, Long

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• The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

  Pele

  Football, Example, Fifa

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• I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.

  Angelina Jolie

  Believe, Perfect, Source

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• I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

  Joyce Giraud

  Girl, Queens, Ambition

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