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  • The United Nations is our world's greatest mechanism for making peace

  • I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument for securing peace and for giving people everywhere, in poorer countries as in richer, a real stake in that peace by promoting development and encouraging cooperation. But the United Nations is only an instrument, an actor in need of props and cues from its directors, And so I will paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give us the tools-the trust, the authority and the means-and we will do the job.

    Trust   Country   Jobs  
  • Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.

    "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.
  • Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards all the new forms of literacy required in the twenty-first century. We wish to see a century where every child is able to read and to use this skill to gain autonomy.

  • In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

    Believe   Race   Profound  
    Kofi Annan's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2001.
  • Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

    War   Mean   Reality  
  • If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

    "The United Nations: A Very Short Introduction". Book by Jussi M. Hanhimäki, 2015.
  • The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.

  • What matters is the people. We must ensure that the United Nations is supported by the people and that it reflects the will of the people.

  • The one common undertaking and universal instrument of the great majority of the human race is the United Nations. A patient, constructive long-term use of its potentialities can bring a real and secure peace to the world.

    Real   Race   Long  
  • I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world

  • Human nature being what it is, peace must inevitably be a relative condition. The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to that extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction. Struggle and competition are stimulating, but when they degenerate into conflict it is usually both destructive and disruptive. The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  • The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.

  • I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.

    Children   People   Water  
  • Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.

    Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.
  • I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

  • The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be a melting pot.

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

  • Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.

    War   Future   Hands  
  • The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

    Equality   Race   Unesco  
  • UNESCO provides protection for the great cultural institutions. There is something called the intangible cultural heritage list. And the Italians want to put Neapolitan pizza on it. But in order to do that, you have to show that whatever it is that you're trying to protect is under threat. And pizza is totally under threat from Pizza Hut and Domino's...

    Order   Trying   Lists  
    "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 12, 2016.
  • In a nutshell, this United Nations non-profit organization [World Food Programme] feeds millions of starving children at schools in third world countries as an incentive for them to attend school, which in turn might better their futures. They do so much more but I was so struck by this story.

  • The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

    Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”
  • If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.

    Real   School   People  
  • The aim of political institutions like the United Nations is to draw the line between struggle and conflict and to make it possible for nations to stay on the right side of that line.

  • 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 nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

  • The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

    Football   Example   Fifa  
  • I never dreamed I would be a Goodwill Ambassador, and for UNESCO. Perfect organization. It is apolitical and it's about education, science and culture. I mean that is what I live. That is what UNESCO is really about; it's all about bringing human beings together with one common goal, which is to move human kind forward.

  • There’s no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them.

    Country   Real   Trying  
    "Shashi Tharoor on 'Have Your Say'". "Have Your Say" with Bridget Kendall, shashitharoor.in. September 24, 2006.
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