In celebration of the 70th founding anniversary of the United Nations Organization this month, October 24, 2015, our quotes will commemorate this achievement.
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
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.
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
- Conor Cruise O'Brien
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
- Ralph Bunche
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, to be a part of the twentieth century.
- Adlai E. Stevenson
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations.
- Kofi Annan
The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.
- Ralph J. Bunche
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
- U Thant
The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.
- Harry S. Truman
Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries ... Thanks to their efforts, life-saving humanitarian assistance can be delivered and economic development can begin.
- Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
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