UN General Assembly
1960

As long as we are unable to establish the reign of international peace and security; as long as steps are being taken — or can be taken — and preparations made with a view to aggression, world dominion, and the subjection of peoples to a system which denies liberty and destroys freedom of conscience by negating individual personality and disregarding essential human rights, as long as there is still an area of the world in which man, the bearer of eternal values, is reduced to the status of a cog in the State machine or a herd animal in the service of the State, and also — for why should we disguise the fact? — as long as an attempt is being made to subject peoples to outdated systems of ruthless exploitation and under-consumption, and the right of all to decent living conditions is ignored, as long as this state of affairs persists the international community cannot be organized oh a sufficiently firm basis of confidence and co-operation to enable all the vast resources of destructive power to be put to the service of peace and progress, without reference to frontiers, race, religion, or political systems.