Famous quotes containing the words united nations, united, nations and/or operation:
“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.
“The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“Other nations use “force”; we Britons alone use “Might.””
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.”
—Henri Bergson (1859–1941)