United Nations Quotes

• The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the States in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

  Kofi Annan

  Principles, World, Membership

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

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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, Unesco

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

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• The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is to create the conditions which will make possible a more highly developed organization.

  John Foster Dulles

  Organization, Order, Tasks

  John Foster Dulles (1957). “War Or Peace”

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• From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.

  Kofi Annan

  Keys, Priorities, Vision

  Nobel lecture, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 2001.

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• If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

  Kofi Annan

  People, Doe, World

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no such thing as the United Nations.

  John Bolton

  United, Nations

  John Bolton (2008). “Surrender Is Not an Option: Defending America at the United Nations”, p.440, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

  Ralph Bunche

  Love, Peace, World

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• It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Believe, Organization, Long

  Statement to the General Assembly of the United Nations, October 03, 1960.

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• More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

  Kofi Annan

  Destiny, Together, Faces

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Oct 24, 2016

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• The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

  Harry S. Truman

  Freedom, Independence, Lasting Love

  The Truman Doctrine, delivered 12 March 1947 before a Joint Session of Congress

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• The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it. We need to reform it.

  Richard Holbrooke

  Organization, United States, Reform

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• The building of a just and peaceful world order, the aim of the United Nations, is hampered not by a dearth of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Government, Order, Ideas

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• This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Organization, Heaven, Politics

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• Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

  U Thant

  Respect, Human Rights, Humans

  "Portfolio for Peace", (p. 92), 1968.

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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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• 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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• The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  War, Goal, Essentials

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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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• The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Powerful, People, Agents

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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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• We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

  John F. Kennedy

  Birthday, Determination, War

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Government, Democracy, Moral

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• The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Political, Weight, Politics

  "The Bolton Embarrassment" by John Nichols, www.thenation.com. August 1, 2005.

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• If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.

  Kofi Annan

  Reflection, World, Should

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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