Casualties Quote by Alec Douglas-Home

We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize the tragic…

— Antonio Guterres

Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when…

— Samantha Power

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is…

— Vladimir Putin

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more…

— Richard Holbrooke

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

— Fidel Castro

The United Nations is the best hope to spare humanity from the barbarity of war, from the senseless death, destruction and dislocation it brings…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's the only…

— Zoe Leonard

The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary task is…

— John Foster Dulles

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those…

— Norman Cousins

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world…

— Hjalmar Branting

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

There are few forces for good as extensive and important as the United Nations. Being able to work with them and other global aid…

— David Droga