Kofi Annan Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.
We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
Children are our future and if we use them in battle, we are destroying the future. We must reclaim them, every one of them, one at a time.
Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is.
The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
I don't see a situation where one side will win militarily, take over Syria, and there will be peace and quiet, a clean victory.
Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.
Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.
To build a more healthy, peaceful and equitable world the classrooms of the world have to be full of girls as well as boys
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.
I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done.
Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family
I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.
Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.
We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.
These divisions in the international community - the Syrians bear quite a lot of the blame, but we have enabled it by the divisions between us.
A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment
Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.
Poverty devastates families, communities and nations. It causes instability and political unrest and fuels conflict.
Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.
When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.
A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.
A citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.
We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war.
We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world
A United Nations that will not stand up for human rights is a United Nations that cannot stand up for itself.
Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without ...
It is my aspiration that health finally will be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for.
Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.
We must bring a message of solidarity, of mutual respect and, above all, of hope. Business cannot afford to be seen as the problem.
We have to be very clear with the population and the countries we enter what we can do and what we cannot do.
If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?