UN General Assembly
1964

93. If one thinks about it a little, what is happening now is more than a financial crisis, it is a development crisis, the crisis which precedes maturity, what might be called the crisis of adolescence. Nineteen years do not pass in vain and nineteen years is sufficient time for the essential traits of a character to crystallize. Institutions too are living entities, destined to live and to endure, and just as our life consists of moving towards maturity, which is the goal, even so institutions—like plants, like animals, like man himself—need to develop all their capacities and potentialities harmoniously, in order to attain the full consummation of their destiny. The maintenance of peace, even over and above the possibilities provided for in Chapter VII of the Charter, is—as we can clearly see, now that the Organization has become more mature—one of the essential traits of the character of our Organization, of its spirit and of its essence.