The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail... You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail. You… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
You are not an agnostic…You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice. — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
