Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love andcompassion would have built the defenses of peace.
U ThantThe single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
U ThantI don't like to be disturbed at home; I tell the cable office not to call me before 6:30 AM, unless there's a war.
U ThantThe war we have to wage today has only one goal, and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
U ThantAs we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
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