UN General Assembly
1962

110. That is not all, however. The international community, although a multiple society, has an entity of its own, based on ontological foundations just as firm as. those justifying the existence of a State. Consequently, because they are component parts, or members, of a greater whole, States must assume certain types of obligation which to some extent transcend those resulting from the varying legal relationships between them. However strong our national feeling, however legitimate (as of course it is) the life of each nation, the autonomy of the State is not absolute; it is restricted not only by the equal rights of other States but also by the more general requirements for the general good of the human race as a whole, without which it would, in the last analysis, be vain to seek the good of its members.