U Thant Quotes
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
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The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility by the international community for the promotion and protection of man's basic rights and freedoms. The world has come to a clear realization of the fact that freedom, justice and world peace can only be assured through the international promotion and protection of these rights and freedoms.
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Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.
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Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
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I 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.
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As 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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In modern war there is no such thing as victor and vanquished... There is only a loser, and the loser is mankind.
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The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".
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To understand my feelings — and my conception of the role of Secretary General — the nature of my religious and cultural background must first be understood. I should therefore like to outline not only my beliefs but also my conception of human institutions and of the human situation itself.
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I am afraid if the present trend in Vietnam continues that direct confrontation, first of all between Washington and Peking, is inevitable.