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"45 Kofi Annan Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 April 1938. Died: 18 August 2018 | Diplomat |

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Err Liberty Freedom Side
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education Every Family Information
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More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Before Common Destiny Ever
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It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Against Arguing Been Globalization
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We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Because Build Cannot Every
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

Abject Billions Countries Developing
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.

Between Calculations Choose Driven
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Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Build Business Civil Community
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

Abroad African Armies Because
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More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Countries Development Equality More
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We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.
Capacity Deal Find Means
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Able Advantage Alone Being
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Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.

Above Arise Both Commitment
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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?

Attempt Chart Course Decades
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We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Alive Better Hope Keep
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In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

Failed Greatest Hour Need
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Central Conditions Democracy Development
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In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Country Dear Holds Important
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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Children Future Going Leave
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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.

Choose Get Go Know
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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.

Alike Beneficial Central Development
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Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Democracy Education Foundation Freedom
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Building Challenge Development Equality
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Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

About Drawing Few Governments
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On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

Appreciate Change Climate Fully
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When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Conditions Difficult Economic Generous
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What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Also Collective Governments Interest
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We cannot allow situations where leaders threaten war on television or on Twitter.
Allow Cannot Leaders Situations
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The U.N. doesn't have any troops; we borrow them from governments.

Any Borrow Governments Them
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I think it is important to speak out.
Important Out Speak Think
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.

Accepts Bump Everyone Fighter
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Sometimes I walk into a situation and know someone is going to provoke me, and I just simply refuse to be provoked.

Going Just Know Provoke
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Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

Activity Country Doing Economic
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The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

Colonial Country Fight Gain
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Change is a process which has to be managed.
Change Process Which
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The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Arab Spring Bit Country
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My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation: ideally, not put themselves up for re-election and allow the system to work.

Accept Advice Allow Democratic
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One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

Character Come King Move
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As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

Exploit Inequality Long Other
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Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free press, or the infrastructure required to defend their nascent democracies.

Defend Democracy Developing Free
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If citizens do not believe they can change their leaders through the ballot box, they will find other ways, even at the risk of destabilizing their countries.

Ballot Believe Box Change
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Shifting towards low-carbon energy systems can avert climate catastrophe while creating new opportunities for investment, growth, and employment.

Catastrophe Climate Creating Employment
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Governments have to conclude a fair, universal, and binding climate agreement, by which every country commits to reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

Agreement Binding Climate Conclude
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I am a stubborn optimist: I was born an optimist and will remain an optimist.
Am Born Optimist Remain
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I think that my darkest moment was the Iraq war and the fact that we could not stop it.

Could Darkest Fact Iraq
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Kofi Annan Quotes & Sayings