UN General Assembly
1960

43. Selfishness no longer pays. The basic problem is to bring this truth home, to those who direct the world's destinies, those who guide public opinion and those who now enjoy the benefits of systems which are doomed to disappear. We are aware that attitudes which we do not share have their origin in concrete facts which must be studied fully and all their implications understood. We realize and concede that many of these attitudes are the direct outcome of despotic political regimes or of the poverty and ignorance reigning in a particular part of the world, and, that the sins of others often reflect our own. 44. We know that in a suffering world, in which, in the words of Abbe Pierre, one third of the population " is dying from over-eating, another third from lack of food, while the other third is undernourished, we must ail sincerely and frankly admit our share of guilt. The resources to end this situation are becoming increasingly available to mankind, provided it does not dissipate its talents in destruction.