Authority Quote by Lakhdar Brahimi Download Open image “Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.” — Lakhdar Brahimi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Character Moral Moral authority Unesco
“The good performed by some of United Nations institutions, such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF, has been outweighed by the amount of bad the UN has either abetted or allowed. It has enabled genocide in Rwanda, done little or nothing to stop genocide in the Congo and Sudan, given a respectable forum to tyrannies, convened conferences (the Durban… — Dennis Prager Copy Share
Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Like any large organisation, public or private, the UN is a complex machine. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
“After the second world war in 1948 they founded the UN, the United Nations so that a crime like the mass-murder of the Jews… — Ad De Bont Copy Share Image
The United Nations is nothing but a trap-door to the Red World's immense concentration camp. We pretty much control the U.N. — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Supposedly the premier torchbearer for global human rights, the UNHRC is severely compromised and serves no strategic purpose to the U.S.; as with most… — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
The UN may not be very effective but I am a fan of the idea of the United Nations. I have been there, I… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
At times one feels that what is being said in the West is that the fact that you are a Muslim predisposes you to… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice. — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike. — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
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