Un Quotes

21 quotes from 21 authors

The prefix ‘un’ flips meaning with a single syllable, turning certainty into doubt and calm into chaos. This collection of 21 quotations from 21 thinkers spots how writers play with the negative, using it to provoke humor, insight and a fresh look at everyday concepts.

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We believe the use of force against Iraq, especially with reference to previous resolutions of the UN Security Council, has no grounds,…

Igor Ivanov

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Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into…

Peter Schuyler

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“If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.”

Andrew Thomson

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“If blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your…

Kenneth Cain

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The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on…

Frank Gaffney

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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely…

Lakhdar Brahimi

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The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is…

Elliott Abrams

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“A continent once described as the white man’s grave, can now be suitably dubbed the white man’s harem.”

A. H. Septimius

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“After the second world war in 1948 they founded the UN, the United Nations so that a crime like the mass-murder of…

Ad De Bont

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Messengers of Peace such as Midori - and our Goodwill Ambassadors, who work directly with the UN agencies - are dedicated and…

Ban Ki-moon

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When I'm building my dome in my chapel, and I had a vision - I've worked on perpetual motion and I haven't…

Howard Finster

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We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in…

Anonymous

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Saddam Hussein has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he…

Henry Waxman

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“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have…

Gary Shteyngart

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“Marcia Wilson was a good example of Omega’s core strategy for creating a New World Order. It involved placing their people, or…

James Morcan

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“History has been witness to heart wrenching barbaric violations from time immemorial throughout the world where battles and wars have been fought,…

Henrietta Newton Martin

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“Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this…

David Harvey

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“From an early age children play 'cowboys and Indians', Nobody ever plays 'UN peacekeeping force'. (From: Kinderpraat)”

A.J. Beirens

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“If the United Nations wants to do something to be remembered forever, I guess that would be freeing people from insanity of…

M.F. Moonzajer

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Today's message to Baghdad is very clear: the UN Security Council resolution expresses the unity and determination of the entire international community…

Javier Solana

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Oui, dans mon rêve, j'étais un crayon, mais admittedly, I'd more suitably be characterized as a plump carrot.

Isabel Yosito

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