"The UN's very first charter is to maintain peace and make sure that peace is adhered to. Where is the peace?"

"[The very first charter of the United Nations is to] maintain peace and make sure that peace is adhered to. Where is the peace? Where are those guarantees that the UN needs to guarantee? [Russia’s actions in Ukraine have resulted in] the most terrible war crimes of all times we have seen since the end of World War Two....
    "We are dealing with a state that is turning the veto into the UN security council into the right to die.
    "This undermines the whole architecture of global security. It allows them to go unpunished. So they are destroying everything that they can. [The council must] remove Russia as an aggressor and a source of war so it cannot block decisions about its own aggression, its own war.
    "Do you think that the time of international law is gone? If your answer is no, then you need to act immediately.
    "The UN charter must be restored immediately. The UN system must be reformed immediately so that the veto is not the right to die. Then the next option would be to dissolve yourself altogether.”
          ~ Volodomyr Zelenskiy, addressing the United Nations overnight

"Psychologically, the U.N. has contributed a great deal to the gray swamp of demoralisation — of cynicism, bitterness, hopelessness, fear and nameless guilt — which is swallowing the Western world.... establishing the notion that the difference between human rights and mass slaughter is merely a difference of political opinion....
    "[The UN] is supposed to be dedicated to preserving peace and to protecting rights, and yet Russia, which is the worst offender against peace and individual rights, on the largest scale, is one of the charter members. That really amounts to a town’s having gangsters as part of its crime-fighting committee."
          ~ Ayn Rand, from her essay 'The Cult of Moral Grayness'

"Q: Would you favour U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations? A: Yes. I do not sanction the grotesque pretense of an organisation allegedly devoted to world peace and human rights which includes Soviet Russia, the worst aggressor and bloodiest butcher in history, as one of its members. The notion of protecting rights, with Soviet Russia among the protectors, is an insult to the concept of rights and to the intelligence of any man who is asked to endorse or sanction such an organisation. I do not believe that an individual should cooperate with criminals, and, for all the same reasons, I do not believe that free countries should cooperate with dictatorships."
          ~ Ayn Rand, from her 1964 Playboy interview