Quotes About UN

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

Exceeding the salt spoils the delicious food, which can be dangerous too. Similarly, to surpass and misuse the veto right in the UN Security Council deprecates and damages the value and nature of its charter, and that becomes a poison.

Manufacturers of various weapons and its political puppets in power and authority are responsible for the wars, killings and the failure of global peace and stability. Thus, the United Nations rules and resolutions exhibit only self-humiliation.

The Western world and Superpowers are as a legalized hegemony in the lap of the United Nations, where its resolutions cry for peace, getting no way at gunpoint of the Veto.

example. Every effort to get the Commission on Human Rights of the United Nations even to consider our denunciations was fruitless. We sent that organization detailed information about the tortures, the murders, the plans to blow us up with the explosives installed in the Circulars, but it did nothing. The prestigious Commission on Human Rights had deaf ears and blind eyes for what was happening in the Cuban political prisons.

I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.

In the eleven months preceding the outbreak of World War II, 211 treaties of peace were signed. Were these treaties of peace written on paper, or were they written on the hearts of men? And we must ask ourselves as we hear of treaties being written today, whether the treaties of the UN are written with the full cognizance of the fact that those who sign them are responsible before God?

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

The main part of the Hyde bill is to withhold U.S. contributions to the regular assessed budget of the U.N. unless they make real and substantial reforms in the way they operate.

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.

The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Only four members of the assembly voted in opposition, all of them Anglo settler-states - the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

According to the report of the UN's Bruntlandt Commission of 1987, which might be credited with first popularizing the term, sustainable development is "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force.

The U.N.'s current projection is that humanity will number 9.3 billion individuals in 2050 and then hit 10.1 billion by 2100. Meanwhile, our energy resources are dwindling, and droughts threaten our food supplies.

I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.

You ought to dialogue first before you start throwing spears. And I think the U.N. provides an opportunity for dialogue.

Former UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold may have best summed up the UN's track record and its promise when he said it was created 'not to lead mankind to heaven but to save humanity from hell'" (p. 348).

Early on in my tenure, I was given a cartoon that circulated widely at the UN. The cartoon showed dozens of people listening to a speech. In the first panel, the speaker asks, "Who wants change?" and all audience members enthusiastically raise their hands. In the second panel, the speaker refines his question, asking, "Who wants to change?" This time, each audience member looks toward the ground, demurring.

Despite the UN secretary-general's grand title, he was named in the UN Charter as the administrator of the organization. For this reason, former secretary-general Kofi Annan described the position as "more secretary than general.

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

It's time to save the U.N. from its own scandals and mismanagement. It's time for U.N. Reform with teeth.