UN General Assembly
1948

It was the supreme duty of the United Nations to restore meaning to their declarations; the salvation of the world demanded that they should practice what they preached. Their discussions should be carried on in a real international spirit which could arise only from the persuasion that there was one indivisible world and one human community. Interdependence and common destiny were the incontestable facts of the modern world, reflecting a historical reality from which contemporary humanity could not escape. For the preservation and improvement of the present-day modes of civilization; and indeed for them merely to continue to exist, it was essential that peoples and governments should adjust their conduct in the light of that truth.