Authority Quote by Albert Einstein

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

— Lakhdar Brahimi

The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard…

— John Hamill

For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable,…

— Roméo Dallaire

The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of…

— Alexander Hamilton

People have been tolerating their insane political system, in exchange for the countless privileges they are getting from their countries' plundering of the planet,…

— Andre Vltchek

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be…

— Jonah Goldberg

The UN is hardly democratic.

— Mahathir Mohamad

The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, does right and just pursues everybody's best interests is a fantasy. Each…

— Mona Charen

The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…

— James Madison

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

— Burt Lancaster

The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling…

— Vaclav Havel

Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle…

— Shirley Hazzard