H. G. Wells Quotes

Let us face it, the U.N. has failed. It has failed in its mission to promote world peace.

The United Nations is your instrument for peace and justice. Use it.

If local civil government is necessary for local civil peace, then world civil government is necessary for world peace.

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

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.

The threat of a world war is no more.

The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.

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.

Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Within a few weeks the organization for the maintenance of international peace and security, established by the San Francisco Charter, will be formally launched through the convocation of the first General Assembly of the United Nations.

U.S. society doesn't want to play the role of international policeman.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.

Throughout that period, Japan had made honest efforts to keep the destruction of war from spreading and, based on the belief that all nations of the world should find their places, had followed a policy designed to restore an expeditious peace between Japan and China.

Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.

We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.

The British can not alone act as the policemen of the world.

When states decide to use force to deal with broader threats to international peace and security, they need the unique legitimacy provided by the United Nations.

Without the U. N., world politics is inconceivable.

One thing the United Nation is good at is producing documents.