Best United Nations Proverbs
305 United Nations quotes by 194 unique authors
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The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
— Nikita Khrushchev
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Mr. Speaker, in seeking to return to the United Nations, the Republic of China on Taiwan will once again ask diplomatic allies to present its…
— Nick Lampson
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We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed…
— Thabo Mbeki
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The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get…
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a…
— Pope John Paul II
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Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was…
— Ron Paul
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No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible…
— Vladimir Putin
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The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council…
— Vladimir Putin
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We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today's complex and turbulent world is one of…
— Vladimir Putin
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The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No.…
— Maggie Q
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Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations.…
— Joseph Rotblat
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There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism.…
— Kevin Rudd
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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we,…
— Norman Schwarzkopf
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of…
— Haile Selassie
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I cannot say that the attitude of the United Nations always is for the Israeli attitude. Israel, I think, has been under severe attacks by…
— Ariel Sharon
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After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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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,…
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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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,…
— Shirley Temple
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The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
— Harry S. Truman
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The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others, a historic goal…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.
— Romola Garai
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"The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and…
— Humphrey Bogart
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In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or…
— George Clooney
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