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United Nations Quotes by Conor Cruise O'Brien
- 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…
- The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum…
- You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
- 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…
More United Nations Quotes
- The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles. — Michelle Bachelet
- The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based… — Mahmoud Abbas
- The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a… — Benazir Bhutto
- There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make… — John Bolton
- Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before… — Bono
- Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new… — James Buchan
- Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea… — Abdallah II
- We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of… — Dick Cheney
- India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. — Winston Churchill
- In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of… — Kofi Annan
- More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together.… — Kofi Annan
- If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new… — Kofi Annan