United Quotes

• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

  Bono

  Beautiful, Respect, Being Yourself

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• United we stand, divided we fall.

  Aesop

  Family, Fall, Diversity

  Aesop (1947). “The Fables of AEsop”, Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms

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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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• 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 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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• The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

  Shirley Temple

  Educational, Done, World

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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 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 idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Commitment, Ideas, United States

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

  Gillian Sorensen

  Our World, Unesco, United Nations

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• The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening.

  Brian Urquhart

  Money, Believe, World Government

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• He hated games they made the world look too simple. Chess, in particular, had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the king lounged about doing nothing. If only the pawns would've united ... the whole board could've been a republic in about a dozen moves.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kings, Moving, Simple

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

  Ralph Bunche

  Love, Peace, World

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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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• For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.

  Jan Eliasson

  War, Commitment, Noble

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

  Ralph Bunche

  Equality, Race, Unesco

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• The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The United Nations has no vested interest in the status quo. It seeks a more secure world, a better world, a world of progress for all peoples. In the dynamic world society which is the objective of the United Nations, all peoples must have equality and equal rights.

  Ralph Bunche

  Rights, Progress, Society

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it's a better cow than the one you've got in your own field. It's a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way.

  Alex Ferguson

  Thinking, Work Out, Looks

  "Sir Alex Ferguson Compares Rooney Situation to 'A Cow in a Field'". www.goal.com. October 20, 2010.

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• It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if he would rather die of exhaustion than lose, he inspired all around him.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Football, Player

  "A-League talking points: Melbourne City fail another test of character" by Jonathan Howcroft, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2015.

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• I think Rafael Benítez was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he'll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Cutting, Men

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Player, Wenger

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• I'm privileged to have followed Sir Matt because all you have to do is to try and maintain the standards that he set so many years ago.

  Alex Ferguson

  Years, Trying, Standards

  "What Can One Learn About Management From Sir Alex Ferguson?" by Shivram Subramanian, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• I believe that food is one way to make people happy. I also believe that food can unite people from all walks of life and cultures. When we sit together and eat, we promote better understanding and harmony.Food brings love, peace and compassion to the table.

  Chef Wan

  Love, Life, Happiness

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