U Thant: "Ketika kita menyaksikan matahari terbenam, malam demi malam,...

"Ketika kita menyaksikan matahari terbenam, malam demi malam, melalui kabut asap melintasi perairan beracun di bumi asli kita, kita harus bertanya kepada diri sendiri dengan serius apakah kita benar-benar berharap beberapa sejarawan universal masa depan di planet lain mengatakan tentang kita: "Dengan segala kejeniusan mereka dan dengan segenap keterampilan mereka, mereka kehabisan pandangan ke depan dan udara dan makanan serta air dan gagasan, "atau, mereka terus bermain politik sampai dunia mereka runtuh di sekitar mereka."

--- U Thant

Versi Bahasa Inggris

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.