我们既不需要“我们时代的和平”，也不需要“永久和平”——但需要足够的和平来维系文明。为了让联合国摆脱它如今深陷其中的无足轻重状态，下一任秘书长将需要安理会中那几个主导大国的齐心协力支持。
We need neither ‘peace in our time’ nor ‘perpetual peace’ – but enough peace to keep civilization To save the United Nations from the irrelevance in which it now wallows, the next secretary general will require the concerted backing of the few powers that govern the security council.
悖论在于，那些在20世纪40年代创建了这一机构、近来却对它抱以傲慢犬儒态度的大国，如今恰恰是最需要它的国家，世界其他地区也是如此。
The paradox is that the great powers who created the institution in the 1940s and recently treat it with a cavalier cynicism are now the ones who need it most, as does the rest of the world.