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"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."
- O'Brien, Conor Cruise

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/40286">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.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5405/">O'Brien, Conor Cruise</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/united_nations/">United Nations</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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