"The United Nations cannot do anything, and never……" — Conor Cruise O'Brien

"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 and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them."

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

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