Quotes By Kofi Annan BACK
- For everyone everywhere literacy is
- It is extreme arrogance for
- Human beings are not property
- To live is to choose
- A developed country is one
- Obama saying Gaddafi must go
- Literacy is a bridge from
- Microfinance recognizes that poor people
- We may have different religions
- If you have a problem
- The long lasting humanitarian impact
- Young people should be at
- It is impossible to realize
- By signing the Oslo accords
- We have the means and
- Remembering is a necessary rebuke
- Nelson Mandela stands as an
- You need younger men in
- Gather the five virtues Dignity
- Have confidence in the young
- World Health Day is an
- We need to ensure the
- I did not always achieve
- The World is not ours
- HIVAIDS has become much more
- You will recall that for
- We must ensure that the
- The problem is not with
- The United Nations has long
- Iraq has a new opportunity
- We can love what we
- It may seem sometimes as
- Children are our future and
- You have to wake up
- Above all else we need
- Tolerance inter cultural dialogue and
- For too long the development
- Slavery was in a very
- A hungry mind is not
- To look into some aspects
- In fact UN is more
- To live is to choose
- I often quote an African
- The global HIVAIDS epidemic is
- Under international law the responsibility
- A United Nations that will
- Intelligence can be used to
- I dont see a situation
- No nation can make itself
- Its not that easy to
- It has been said that
- The UN doesnt work in
- Literacy is a bridge from
- To educate girls is to
- In an era of global
- The future of peace and
- There are lots of questions
- Asked whether donor nations may
- The war on drugs has
- One of my biggest regrets
- I think that peacekeeping can
- Sadly a prize for peace
- I urge the Iraqi leadership
- I was an ordinary boy
- Justice has taken its course
- My own advice to people
- In the past we could
- Ive been around enough to
- Access to safe water is
- Let us choose to unite
- Often we take stability peace
- We have seen recently almost
- We have to choose between
- Young people must be included
- The Lord had the wonderful
- literacy is at the heart
- You can do a lot
- Beneath the surface of states
- Let us remember the large
- In the rush for justice
- Microfinance is an idea whose
- Globalization is a fact of
- People of different religions and
- The fight against HIVAIDS requires
- Over time you learn to
- I observe a lot I
- I have often said that
- Were all human After 10
- More countries have understood that
- You are never too young
- There can be no doubt
- Good healthy democratic societies are
- Elections with integrity are a
- The other thing that really
- Let us work in partnerships
- Does anyone seriously contend that
- When you have difficult issues
- As I travel around the
- The international community allows nearly
- When things are really desperate
- I am not afraid to
- The report produced by my
- In an era of globalisation
- Education is the great equalizer
- Knowledge is power Information is
- The global work of the
- This is an historic step
- Let us all reaffirm our
- The Security Council should be
- The United Nations is proud
- I hope we do not
- Nuclear terrorism is still often
- The death toll from small
- I laugh a lot inside
- Women themselves have the right
- Literacy is finally the road
- All our efforts to defeat
- I cant think of a
- These divisions in the international
- I think that in the
- There is a certain tendency
- Reform is a process and
- You may have noticed over
- We must restore the sacredness
- Whether our task is fighting
- If we do not get
- When the US withdrew their
- The UN power comes from
- If we get agriculture right
- The Lord had the wonderful
- there is no tool for
- In the 21st Century I
- Education is quite simply peace
- Most governments only want to
- To go to war without
- No one is born a
- I think the generational change
- One has to have the
- I think we can make
- As one of my predecessors
- In a world of plenty
- If we can come up
- I think the world has
- Both parties accept this vision
- The world has lost a
- On this International Day of
- Without a dream youll not
- There is no tool for
- I spent my youth and
- The United Nations whose membership
- There are a great number
- We must bring a message
- The past years natural disasters
- If one is going to
- Peace is never a perfect
- We need to think of
- Children are our future and
- We cannot wait for governments
- Jewish people have been victims
- Young people should be at
- Our biggest challenge in this
- As we move forward you
- Let us above all be
- Poverty devastates families communities and
- Over time you get to
- Having worked my way from
- Revolution by its nature can
- I used to tell the
- Insecurity is love dressed in
- Open markets offer the only
- We need to create a
- When so many lives are
- Refugees cannot be stopped but
- Each crisis is different has
- Achieving the MDGs is not
- We were all children once
- I have always believed that
- We tend to look at
- The UN was very media
- The question is the morning
- You need to be careful
- Like any large organisation public
- The report by a UN
- You are never too young
- A nation has the right
- The young and dynamic and
- The happiness of any society
- let us recognize that extreme
- UN is made even more
- Any society that does not
- Today no walls can separate
- Violence against women is perhaps
- Generals often find a way
- Good healthy democratic societies are
- Acquiring literacy is an empowering
- Professional accountants should be encouraging
- I think the US and
- Sometimes I walk into a
- The interesting thing is everybody
- After the end of the
- In all these cases part
- In some ways the challenges
- To build a more healthy
- If we are to make
- We have to be very
- Sometimes when you take a
- Let us be good stewards
- It is extreme arrogance for
- On this International Literacy Day
- Education is a human right
- If you are neutral in
- The status quo cannot work
- This is a day on
- I think what gives me
- Can the state which represents
- On this International Day of
- Literacy is a bridge from
- Invite politicians to dinner and
- Access to a secure safe
- We often hear a lot
- You have to develop a
- There has to be a
- A world government can intervene
- The gap between the rich
- Many African leaders refuse to
- Usually when you look around
- Change is a process which
- Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you
- If globalization is to succeed
- The drafters of the Refugee
- If information and knowledge are
- When women thrive all of
- We need to promote greater
- However much one tries to
- We all make mistakes
- Terrorism constitutes a direct attack
- let us continue to work
- Most people forget that even
- Education is a human right
- In countries where democracy is
- Professional accountants should use that
- There is no development strategy
- Contrary to popular belief we
- More than ever before in
- If there is one area
- If our hopes of building
- Neutrality is a tough call
- It is true that the
- If the United Nations does
- I think that these flows
- These often unsung heroes understandthat
- Applaud us when we prevail
- It is within the family
- Fierce national competition over water
- The US led invasion of
- Human rights education is much
- Literacy unlocks the door to
- National markets are held together
- On this International Day of
- From this vision of the
- It is well known that
- Extreme poverty anywhere is a
- You saw the traumas that
- The Millennium Development Goals can
- The reality is that no
- We had a rule in
- Literacy is a bridge from
- It is tragic that so
- The United Nations believes that
- Business cannot prosper in societies
- Ameen Rihani one of the
- It is my aspiration that
- International law now grants rights
- How can you have a
- We knew the Syrian situation
- Unless the Security Council is
- Landmines are among the most
- You have made people listen
- The invasion and occupation of
- Business labor and civil society
- The preservation of biodiversity is
- Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen
- Ignorance and prejudice are the
- Gender equality is more than
- In an age where community
- The number one goal in
- Its always a difficult time
- Founded on the principles of
- I urge you to celebrate
- Normally when people resign they
- Knowledge is power Information is
- We need to keep hope
- Microfinance recognizes that poor people
- My intimate knowledge of the
- His Holiness brings a wealth
- The problem is this The
- Once you are really challenged
- We at the UN have
- Tony Blair is a very
- We shall not defeat any
- Drugs have destroyed many lives
- Not only do these abominable
- The right to development is
- When we talk about the
- I think over time you
- Some have suggested that ideally
- I am often asked what
- If the United Nations is
- I was devastated by the
- The future of peace and
- It is not in the
- We will not enjoy security
- The future belongs to you
- We dont need any more
- If tolerance respect and equity
- There is no trust more
- Sometimes I walk into a
- One must also acknowledge that
- Democracy is in essence a
- The UN Security Council P5
- In their greatest hour of
- One has to learn from
- Perhaps the single most successful
- No one is born a
- Young people with their dynamism
- The Refugee Convention of 1951