UN General Assembly
1958

23. The Second World War gave birth to the United Nations, an idea and machinery to facilitate the transition from the old world order based on force and violence to the new order based on the rule of law and peaceful relations between nations. 24. One of the basic principles of the United Nations is that the approach of force and violence — on a large or small scale — cannot lead to the solution of conflicts and differences between nations. Fascism, for example, as an ideology and a practice of force and violence was able to solve neither the problem of the economy under which it grew nor the problems which brought it into conflict with the rest of the world. In fact, what was true twenty years ago is still obviously true in our present day. That is, force and violence cannot possibly lead to the solution of any major problem, especially when force and violence have become much too terrible and destructive.