Citizens Quotes by Kofi Annan

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

— Kofi Annan

UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after…

— Kofi Annan

We were all children once. And we all share the desire for the well-being of our children, which has always been and will continue…

— Kofi Annan

You will recall that for months after 9/11, there was incredible support and sympathy for the US. I really hoped and wished they had…

— Kofi Annan

A nation has the right to defend itself, but when it comes to the broader issue of peace and security, the legitimacy rests only…

— Kofi Annan

Sometimes when you take a tough action against one side in the conflict, they see you as part of the conflict and they attack…

— Kofi Annan

Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit…

— Kofi Annan

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At…

— Kofi Annan

We knew the Syrian situation was complex and there were lots of divisions, particularly on the side of the opposition... This is a tough…

— Kofi Annan

The question is the morning after. What sort of Iraq do we wake up to after the bombing? What happens in the region? What…

— Kofi Annan

I laugh a lot inside and outside, and at myself sometimes.

— Kofi Annan

Can the state, which represents the whole of society and has the duty of protecting society, fulfill that duty by lowering itself to the…

— Kofi Annan

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

— Kofi Annan

Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free…

— Kofi Annan

The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able to follow…

— Kofi Annan