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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Certainty
Nations
United
Will
Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Christian
Nothing
Talk
Unity
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.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Nations
United
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
History
Apathy
Horror
Man
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Nature
Politics
Religion
Human nature