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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
You are not an agnostic ... You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.
Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.
In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.
The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine ... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.