Quotes tagged ‘UN’

“Thunberg told representatives of 110 U.N. member states. 'I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.'”

— Emily Specter, vogue.com

“You ever hear about the Nuremberg trials, Trev? They weren't that long ago. Yeah, well, the big shots were the first trial, but then the next trial were just the judges, and lawyers, and policemen, and guards, and ordinary people just doing their jobs, following orders. That's where we got the Nurem…”

— Kieran Fitzgerald, Oliver Stone, Edward Snowden, Edward Snowden, imdb.com

“Okay, I left word with the UN ambassador and Gloria Estefan. One of them will stop the deportation. Most probably Gloria Estefan.”

— Meredith Averill, Christopher Oscar Pena, Rogelio De La Vega, Jaime Camil, imdb.com

“Nothing is more essential to the future peace of the world than continued cooperation of the nations which had to muster the force necessary to defeat the conspiracy of the Axis powers to dominate the world.”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org

“If wars in the future are to be prevented the nations must be united in their determination to keep the peace under law.”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org

“It is not enough to yearn for peace. We must work, and if necessary, fight for it. The task of creating a sound international organization is complicated and difficult. Yet, without such organization, the rights of man on earth cannot be protected. Machinery for the just settlement of international…”

— Harry S Truman, trumanlibrary.org