Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 88 Un quotesUn QuotesUn Next 20 quotes Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.~ Aeschylus The International government of the United Nations, stripped of its legal trimming, then, is really the International Government of the United States and the Soviet Union acting in unison.~ American Jewish Committee’s Magazine Indeed, the U.N. is the main Soviet espionage center in this country.~ Jack Anderson When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts, the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs.~ Maxwell Anderson What a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. ... food is power. ... Yes, it's bribery. We don't apologize for that.~ Catherine Bertini Let's have no illusions. We can't easily change the underlying beliefs and prejudices that do so much damage to women worldwide. We cannot quickly change attitudes, but we can change behaviour. At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food is money, food is power. In some of our most successful food aid projects, we literally pay families who do not believe in educating their daughters to send those girls to school. A little free cooking oil can go a long way. We trade a 5 litre can of oil for 30 days of school attendance by a young girl. Yes, it's bribery. We don't apologize for that. We are changing behaviour, we are giving hope and opportunity to young girls and that is all that counts. Each small change in behaviour will one day pay off in a change in attitude.~ Catherine Bertini From the rostrum of the United Nations, we shall convince the colonial and semicolonial people to liberate themselves and to spread the Communist theory all over the world.~ Soviet General Pantelei Bondarenko A functioning police state needs no police.~ William S. Borroughs The American communists worked energetically and tirelessly to lay the foundations for the United Nations which we were sure would come into existence. … It can be said, without exaggeration, that ever closer relations between our nation and the Soviet Union are an unconditional requirement for the United Nations as a world coalition. … The United Nations is the instrument for victory. Victory is required for the survival of our nation. The Soviet Union is an essential part of the United Nations. Mutual confidence between our country and the Soviet Union and joint work in the leadership of the United Nations are absolutely necessary.~ Earl Browder It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance.~ George Herbert Walker Bush [The war in Iraq is] a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times...a new world order can emerge.~ George Herbert Walker Bush My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.~ George Herbert Walker Bush It was just one year ago that the world saw this new, invigorated United Nations in action as this Council stood fast against aggression and stood for the sacred principles enshrined in the U.N. Charter. And now it's time to step forward again, make the internal reforms, accelerate the revitalization, accept the responsibilities necessary for a vigorous and effective United Nations. I want to assure the members of this Council and the Secretary-General, the United Nations can count on our full support in this task.~ George Herbert Walker Bush ...no nation which signs this [UN] Charter can justly maintain that any of its acts are its own business, or within its own domestic jurisdiction, if the security council says that these acts are a threat to the peace.~ William Carr Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.~ Douglas Casey To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.~ Dr. G. Brock Chisolm When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed...~ Civil Servants' Year Book [The program of American disarmament outlined in State Department Paper 7277] is the fixed, determined and approved policy of the government of the United States.~ Joseph S. Clark ...there is no provision in the Charter itself that contemplates ending war. It is true the Charter provides for force to bring peace, but such use of force is itself war... The Charter is a war document not a peace document... Not only does the Charter Organization not prevent future wars, but it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose the side on which we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting.~ J. Reuben Clark, Jr. Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.~ Constitution of UNESCO Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print