UNESCO

specialised agency of the United Nations for education, sciences, and culture

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Also known as United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Notable quotes

“Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.”
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali in a speech in 1992. Cited in Awake! magazine, 1995, 9/8; article: How Was the World 50 Years Ago?
“Our main goal should be to establish a precedent for a new post-Cold War era, in which the community of nations, working through the United Nations and other organizations, can insure that would-be aggressors do not profit from invasion, coercion and force.”
— Paul Nitze, "War Whether We Need It Or Not?" (co-written with Michael F. Stafford) in The Washington Post (6 January 1991); also in Paul H. Nitze on the Future (1991), p. 177
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt: 10 Inspiring Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes The United Nations Foundation.
“The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation...it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world."”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt as quoted Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial NPS.gov (1 March 1945)
“As far as I've ever heard, the U. N. hasn’t meant anything to anyone for years, except an idealistic, sappy idea that got taken over by Third Worlders and went broke.”
— Norman Spinrad, A Thing of Beauty in Analog (January 1973), p. 74
“I am convinced that the United Nations provides the best road to the future for those who have confidence in our capacity to shape our own fate on this planet.”
— That conviction was expressed by former Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in his book The Challenge of Peace. While admitting the UN’s shortcomings, he also explained: "One should realize that the United Nations is, after all, the world in microcosm. Its weaknesses must consequently be ascribed primarily to the contradictions that characterize the world community itself"; and "I should point out that it [the UN] is no more than a mirror of the world it serves. That world is a conglomerate of extremely varied, often intractable, passionate, and antagonistic nations".

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Key facts

Country: France
Headquarters: Paris
Inception: November 16, 1945
Website: https://unesco.org/en, https://fr.unesco.org, https://es.unesco.org, https://ru.unesco.org

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Notable quotes

“Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.”
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali in a speech in 1992. Cited in Awake! magazine, 1995, 9/8; article: How Was the World 50 Years Ago?
“Our main goal should be to establish a precedent for a new post-Cold War era, in which the community of nations, working through the United Nations and other organizations, can insure that would-be aggressors do not profit from invasion, coercion and force.”
— Paul Nitze, "War Whether We Need It Or Not?" (co-written with Michael F. Stafford) in The Washington Post (6 January 1991); also in Paul H. Nitze on the Future (1991), p. 177
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt: 10 Inspiring Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes The United Nations Foundation.
“The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation...it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world."”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt as quoted Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial NPS.gov (1 March 1945)
“As far as I've ever heard, the U. N. hasn’t meant anything to anyone for years, except an idealistic, sappy idea that got taken over by Third Worlders and went broke.”
— Norman Spinrad, A Thing of Beauty in Analog (January 1973), p. 74
“I am convinced that the United Nations provides the best road to the future for those who have confidence in our capacity to shape our own fate on this planet.”
— That conviction was expressed by former Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim in his book The Challenge of Peace. While admitting the UN’s shortcomings, he also explained: "One should realize that the United Nations is, after all, the world in microcosm. Its weaknesses must consequently be ascribed primarily to the contradictions that characterize the world community itself"; and "I should point out that it [the UN] is no more than a mirror of the world it serves. That world is a conglomerate of extremely varied, often intractable, passionate, and antagonistic nations".

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.