The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.


Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case (ed. Vintage, 1991)

Shirley Hazzard Quotes

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to...

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to...

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to...

The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to...