United Nations Quotes - Page 5

• As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

  Helen Clark

  Mean, Roles, Drafting

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• Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

  Enid Nemy

  Glasses, Office, Legends

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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 Garcia Robles

  Years, Nuclear Disarmament, Race

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• Further, not only the United States, but the French, British, Germans and the United Nations all thought Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the United States intervened.

  Jim Gerlach

  Mass Destruction, Weapons, United States

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• The United Nations has long recognised that the imagination, ideals and energies of young men and women are vital for the continuing development of the societies in which they live. And since its inception in 1948, AIESEC has contributed to this development by serving as an agent of positive change trough education and cultural exchange.

  Kofi Annan

  Men, Imagination, Long

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• It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each of its Member States, by the joint efforts of their governments and people.

  Kofi Annan

  Government, People, Goal

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• Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

  Alcee Hastings

  Commitment, Years, Punishment

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• Strengthening the role the United Nations can play...will require serious examination of the need to extend into the international arena the rule of law and the principle of taxation to finance agreed actions which provide the basis for governance at the national level. But this will not come about easily. Resistance to such changes is deeply entrenched. They will come about not through the embrace of full blown world government, but as a careful and pragmatic response to compelling imperatives and the inadequacies of alternatives.

  Maurice Strong

  Law, Play, World Government

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• Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?

  Kent Hovind

  Organization, Black, Tasks

  "Unmasking the False Religion of Evolution". Book by Kent Hovind, 1996.

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• I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom's annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have.

  Michael Bloomberg

  New York, Army, Doe

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• What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

  Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

  What Matters, People, Unesco

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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

  Government, People, Together

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• May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.

  Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

  Mean, Army, Hype

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• Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Men, Giving

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• Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Nuclear, Weapons, Firsts

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.130, I.B.Tauris

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• Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO2 to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?

  James Inhofe

  Believe, Mean, Talking

  "Meet the Republicans’ Top Guy on the Environment, James Inhofe" by Juliet Lapidos, takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com. November 12, 2014.

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• The attack upon Korea was an outright breach of the peace and a violation of the Charter of the United Nations. By their actions in Korea, Communist leaders have demonstrated their contempt for the basic moral principles on which the United Nations is founded. This is a direct challenge to the efforts of the free nations to build the kind of world in which men can live in freedom and peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Korea, Usa

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• The United Nations is useless...and also harmful. It is a land that flowers demagoguery with a bunch of newborn countries, devoid of any tradition.

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar

  Country, Flower, Land

  "Memories of an unfinished war: Canada, the United States and the decolonization process in Angola" by Manuel Francisco Gomes, Collaborator Alberto João Jardim; Published by Edições Colibri, (p. 153), 2006.

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• For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.

  Jan Eliasson

  War, Commitment, Noble

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• Transferring our sovereignty and decisionmaking power to the WTO, to the United Nations, or any other international body is not in the long-term interests of our people.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Long, People, Body

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• It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their liberty, dignity and human rights. We have to work together to realize the equal rights promised to all by the United Nations Charter. And we must collectively give meaning to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "no one shall be held in slavery or servitude"

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Voice, Giving

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• The United Nations remains our most important global actor. These days we are continuously reminded of the enormous responsibility of the Security Council to uphold international peace and stability.

  Anna Lindh

  Responsibility, Important, Actors

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• There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.

  Martha Smith

  Country, India, Example

  "Martha Smith on: The Impact of the Bravo Test". PBS interview for "Race for the Superbomb" on "American Experience",

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• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  Hans Kung

  Rights, Essence, Ethics

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• It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.

  Wavy Gravy

  Hunting, Impact, Whales

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