The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could. It is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine…a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.
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Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.
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| Birth: | 3rd November, 1917 |
| Death: | 18th December, 2008 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Profession: | Diplomat, Journalist, Politician, Professor, Writer |
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Conor Cruise O'Brien was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish diplomat, politician, professor, writer and journalist. He was a diplomat at the UN, a professor in the US, the Editor-in-Chief of 'The Observer' Sunday newspaper in Britain and a writer whose work commanded attention throughout the English-speaking world. During his career as a civil servant O'Brien worked on the government's anti-partition campaign. At the 1969 general election, he was elected to Ireland's parliament as a Labour Party TD for Dublin North–East becoming a Minister from 1973–77. He was later known primarily as an author and as a columnist for the Irish Independent.
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