W.B. Yeats

I’ve seen and all we have done together over the decades, I have hope. I know there is a wa- — a way forward. In 1919, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats described a world, and I quote, where “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” end of quote. Some may say

er of the Bahamas said it here again last week: if we ignore them, we do so at our peril (see A/70/PV.4). Back in 1919, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, speaking to his generation, lamented that the centre could not hold. That poem was written before the United Nations came into being. Today, this bo

rity. Add the economic crisis the world faces now to those scourges, and it becomes difficult not to see the future as dark and menacing. As the poet Yeats described, we live in a world where (spoke in English) “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” (spoke in Fr

ce we face is stark. Either we stand by and strengthen the international system and the rule of law, or we invite anarchy. The great Irish poet W. B. Yeats put it graphically in The Second Coming': Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world'. That was what the perpet

tuation in the Middle East cries out for an urgent and lasting solution. In this context, we might recall the words of the Irish poet, William Butler Yeats, when he said “too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart”. The sacrifice of the Palestinian people should not be allowed to drag on any long

on with this body. We will work in the embrace of its wise Charter, but we would describe globalization in the words of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats: “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” (The Second Coming)

rmination by organizations and people who themselves have shown the most ruthless lack of concern for human suffering. In the words of the Irish poet Yeats: "Too long a sacrifice makes a stone of the heart." The hunger strike and its needless prolongation have made a stone of many hearts in Northern Irel