It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

Perhaps if we lived with less physical beauty we would develop our true natures more.

Since the moment of the United Nations' inception, untold energies have been expended by governments not only toward the exclusion of persons of principle and distinction from the organization's leading positions, but toward the installation of men whose character and affiliations would as far as possible preclude any serious challenge to governmental sovereignty.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.