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| “Everything
will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of
the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they
made themselves.”
-- Dag
Hammarskjöld *
The UN wasn’t created
to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.
--
Dag Hammarskjöld
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The nations must be
organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating
in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations
-- Arthur Henderson
| "A world
without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more
costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stability."
-- Richard
Holbrooke
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No achievement can be higher
than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may
be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.
-- Cordell Hull *
Fortunately, the war
has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean
to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which
the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
-- Cordell Hull |
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“The heroes of the
world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those
who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure
-- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the
United Nations.”
-- Hubert
Humphrey |
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The United Nations
is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together;
and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.
-- Asma
Jahangir |
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I am working for a
better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source,
but rather rely on those you believe in the most.”
~ Angelina
Jolie |  |
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The one common undertaking
and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United
Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring
a real and secure peace to the world.
-- Trygve
Lie | “The
primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep
peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything
which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous.”
-- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
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Tell the people of
all lands
Let's get together the future is in our hands.
United nations
have to agree
To say no to war, and yes to peace.
-- Country
Joe McDonald |
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"I am very pleased
to have been invited by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to become a United Nations
Messenger of Peace. This is an opportunity to champion the United Nations' Millennium
goals in a meaningful way. I look forward to being an advocate for the cause,
working both through my own community engagement organizations and in collaboration
with United Nations programmes.”
-- Midori
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"I believe that UNICEF
is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the
neediest children around the world"
-- Liam
Neeson |
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must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the
basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and
self-interest.
-- Lester
B. Pearson *
Of all our dreams today
there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the
world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that
can be done to convert it one day into reality.
-- Lester
B. Pearson |
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The
aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between
struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right
side of that line…
-- Javier Perez
de Cuellar Human
nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence
of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost
meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they
degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim
of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between
struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right
side of that line…
-- Javier Perez
de Cuellar | 
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...convince all nuclear
powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity
to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the
profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by
unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the
arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".
~ Alfonso
García Robles |  |
“We should change
our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world
superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the
United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and
too many of our guys are dying with it.”
-- Andy Rooney
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"Nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed
in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment ... for the
sake of humanity - we must get rid of all nuclear weapons."
-- Joseph
Rotblat Indeed,
the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted
unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
-- Joseph
Rotblat |
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Despite a decade of
criticism and budget cuts, the specialized UN agencies have far more expertise
and hands-on experience than any other organizations in the world.
-- Jeffrey
Sachs The
idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one,
especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments
is the rule.
-- Jeffrey
Sachs | 
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The United Nations
is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace
-- Gillian
Sorensen |
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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, to be attended to”
-- Adlai Stevenson |
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, economic, educational and cultural fields.
-- Shirley Temple
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Every human being,
of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect
others even as we respect ourselves.
~ U
Thant World
federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under
a just world order. The heart of their program - a world under law - is realistic
and attainable.
~ U Thant
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| There’s no longer
a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around
the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and
discuss them
-- Shashi
Tharoor *
Universality of the
UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs,
feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other
methods of conducting international relations.
-- Shashi Tharoor
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“The
United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for
all its members”
-- Harry S Truman
"We,
the peoples of the United
Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which
twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith
in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in
the equal right of men and women and of nations large and small....And for these
ends to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good
neighbors...have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims."
-- Preamble, Charter of the United Nations.
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The mythology about
the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money
to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a
net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically
weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst
from happening.
-- Sir Brian Urquhart
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| There was
an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent
member-states
-- Atal
Bihari Vajpayee The
UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger
purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
--
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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The reality is that
international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members
allow it to be.
-- Atal
Bihari Vajpayee |
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"Through your support
of UN peacekeeping, you can help to make this tantalizing word—“peace”—a reality
for all the world’s citizens. Together, we can spread the message that UN peacekeeping
is essential. Without it, the world would be a much less stable, and more violent,
place."
~ Timothy Wirth
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