United Nations Charter Quotes

#1. It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their allegiance.

George H. W. Bush

#2. Only through women's full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Ban Ki-moon

#3. Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.

Tran Duc Luong

#4. 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

#5. The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.

Benazir Bhutto

#6. It's not in baseball's interest or the players' interest to be taking this stance. It's the people's game.

Fay Vincent

#7. Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Amartya Sen

#8. The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

Ban Ki-moon

#9. There's a Drunk Midget in My House
Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts. Like most people who have had one baby, I am an expert on everythiing and will tell you, unsolicited, how to raise your kid!

Tina Fey

#10. Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you half expect to be met by a snarling dog at the gate. Still others want to smother you with their sticky charms.

Stanley Kunitz

#11. The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

Paul Watson

#12. Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.

Amanda Hodgkinson

#13. "a fatal and perhaps fateful error of judgment" " ... this was the last chance for the United Nations to get a grip on themselves and apply the principles of their Charter"

Alec Douglas-Home

#14. When I dropped out of high school at age 16, I didn't know I was going to become a writer - I just knew I'd never been happy in school, and I had this strong suspicion I'd be happy doing other things.

Philipp Meyer

#15. Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.

Bono

#16. A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father's throne and yet does not ask.

Paul Washer

#17. So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

Mariah Carey

#18. Okay? You'll be a knockout. Listen, we'll buy a bottle of high-price Scotch and take it along. That Vat 69.' Frank,

Philip K. Dick

#19. 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.

Cordell Hull

#20. When Warren Buffett says the sun shines out of somebody's backside, it's worth paying attention.

Guy Spier

#21. I am glad that Zimbabwe and China speak the same language on many issues. We share the same conviction that only a fair, just, and non-prescriptive world order, based on the principles of the charter of the United Nations, can deliver the development we all need.

Robert Mugabe

#22. You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Denis Waitley

#23. We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.

King Felipe VI

#24. It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.

Andy Hargreaves

#25. Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

Robert Mugabe

#26. If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

Kwasi Kwarteng

#27. The best reason for disbelieving in God is that he never gave us enough time in life to pursue enough knowledge to find sufficient truth.

Alexander Theroux

#28. As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

Helen Clark