Susan George Quotes

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

This age of globalization is marked by the adoption of universal principles governing such matters as democracy, human rights, trade and development.

Genuine association of interest on the part of the great powers must precede the transformation of the united nations military alliance into a political society of nations.

I worked at the United Nations.

I am totally committed to the cooperation between the African Union and the United Nations.

Facing dramatic global challenges, we need a global capacity to address them that reaffirms the importance of multilateralism and the importance of a rules-based set of international relations, based on the rule of law and in accordance with the U.N. Charter.

The European vision is the United Nations' vision.

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

As long as the problem of world reconstruction remains the center of interest for all nations, blocs having similar attitudes will form and operate even within the League itself.

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

I have concluded that the U.N. can do a few things well.

Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

I also believe that member states of the United Nations should live up their obligations to pay their dues.

How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when they tried to get democracy nationally. Now we need it internationally.

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.

Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.