Genres

Un

Lists

Undead and Unemployed by MaryJanice Davidson

Undead and Unappreciated by MaryJanice Davidson

Undead and Unreturnable by MaryJanice Davidson

Undead and Uneasy by MaryJanice Davidson

'U' Alliteration In The Title

23 books — 5 voters

The Circle of Silence by Shirley Shackleton

East Timor important reads

8 books — 3 voters

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Unraveling Farmer Suicides in India by Nilotpal Kumar

•Un•yins

391 books — 10 voters

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

Palestinian POV - nonfiction

54 books — 9 voters

Diplomatic Divorce by Thomas P. Kilgannon

The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man by Jonas Jonasson

Freedom on the Altar by William Norman Grigg

Books Critical Of The United Nations

7 books — 2 voters

Milo and the Magical Stones by Marcus Pfister

The Promise of World Peace by Universal House of Justice

Consumption and Its Consequences by Daniel Miller

Global Goals Reading List

4 books — 3 voters

Featured News & Interviews

Get Ready! Readers' Most Anticipated Books of 2026

Read »

Quotes Tagged “Un”

“ A vote by the people of a country or a region on a question that is very important..... ”
― Kashmir at UNO

0 likes

“ The U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries. That fact gives the U.S. enhanced interest in the political, economic, and social stability of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States. ... Assistance for populat The U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries. That fact gives the U.S. enhanced interest in the political, economic, and social stability of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening of population pressures through reduced birth rates can increase the prospects for such stability, population policy becomes relevant to resource supplies and to the economic interests of the United States. ... Assistance for population moderation should give primary emphasis to the largest and fastest growing developing countries where there is special U.S. political and strategic interest. Those countries are: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Turkey, Ethiopia and Columbia ... At the same time, the U.S. will look to the multilateral agencies, especially the U.N. Fund for Population Activities which already has projects in over 80 countries to increase population assistance on a broader basis with increased U.S. contributions. This is desirable in terms of U.S. interests and necessary in political terms in the United Nations. ... young people can more readily be persuaded to attack the legal institutions of the government or real property of the ‘establishment,’ ‘imperialists,’ multinational corporations, or other — often foreign — influences blamed for their troubles. ... Without diminishing in any way the effort to reach these adults, the obvious increased focus of attention should be to change the attitudes of the next generation, those who are now in elementary school or younger. ... There is also the danger that some LDC [less developed countries] leaders will see developed country pressures for family planning as a form of economic or racial imperialism; this could well create a serious backlash.… The U.S. can help to minimize charges of an imperialist motivation behind its support of population activities by repeatedly asserting that such support derives from a concern with: (a) The right of the individual couple to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of children and to have information, education, and means to do so; and (b) The fundamental social and economic development of poor countries in which rapid population growth is both a contributing cause and a consequence of widespread poverty. ...more ”
― National Security Council, The Kissinger Report: NSSM-200 Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security Interests

0 likes

More quotes...