Unesco – Quotes

UNESCO is the conscience

UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations. Federico Mayor Zaragoza

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Everything will be all

Everything will be all right – you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves. Dag Hammarskjold

Tell the people of

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. Country Joe McDonald

Fortunately, the war has

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. Cordell Hull

For example, it’s often

For example, it’s often forgotten that [Albert ] Camus was extremely hostile [farouche] towards the [Francisco] Franco regime, and right to the end. He refused to travel to Spain, he left UNESCO because UNESCO accepted Franco’s Spain and allowed it a discourse. Catherine Camus

The mythology about the

The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn’t. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it’s a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the … Read more

UNESCO is the conscience

If the United Nations

Everything will be all

Tell the people of

Fortunately, the war has

For example, it’s often

The mythology about the

There was an implicit

The UN’s unique legitimacy