Quotes about UNESCO

Irina Bokova

The looting of archeological sites and museums in Iraq particularly has reached industrial proportions.

The United States had spent tens of billions of dollars training the Iraq military and police. Not only did the army collapse and run from ISIS fighters who Iraq largely outnumbered but the police could or would not protect the nation's rich artistic and archeological heritage.

UNESCO

Tolerance is respect, acceptance and appreciation of the rich diversity of our world's cultures... It is not only a moral duty, it is also a political and legal requirement.

UNESCO is different from the United Nations itself. It’s purpose is educational, scientific and cultural but its delegates sometimes go off in strange directions. The moral and perhaps cultural statement has no political or legal force in international law.

Marie Curie

Science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Ralph Bunche

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

Joyce Giraud

I'm working with UNESCO on a project called 'Thirst,' which educates children all over China and promotes awareness to the fact that 300 million people in China do not have access to water.

Joyce Giraud

I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around the world.

Pele

Another reason why I am always close to the people, because the communication is very important. When I stopped to play soccer I continued to... I continued to work with UNICEF. I did a lot of work with UNESCO. We did a lot of charity programme and games.

Greg Mortenson

According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism, gender discrimination, and geographical isolation. The cost to educate a child in the third world is about $ 1 per month per child. To achieve global literacy, the investment would be $ 8 billion per year for 15 years.

Pele

The biggest family in the world is football, because football has more associate - and FIFA, for example - has more associates than UNESCO.

Joyce Giraud

I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of the Universe pageant, which is charity-based, to benefit UNESCO. For me, the most important thing is that contestants have a charity-based platform or charity ambition.

Emily Thornberry

Unesco can rightly be claimed as one of Britain's greatest contributions to that global architecture of peace, and for Penny Mordaunt to be willing to destroy that legacy by withdrawing Britain's membership is nothing but historical and cultural vandalism.

UNESCO Quotes