#united nations

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people are vegetarian for one day a week, that makes a huge difference! ↗

— Emily Deschanel

#blew #day #did #difference #huge

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#control #groups #interest #nations #outlaw

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#in fact #itself #mess #nations #riddled

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#average #average americans #demand #fear #greatest

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#council #enough #failure #i #maybe

The problem with the United Nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies. ↗

— Jonah Goldberg

#available #best #democracies #democracy #disaster

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

#documentary #endangered #endangered species #enormous #had

We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights. ↗

— William Hague

#democracy #direction #directly #european #european union

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 Hammarskjold

#drawing #everything #just #know #made