I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It's not that easy to quit. When you look back in the American system it is very rare that people quit on… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is not in the United Nations that the Millennium Development Goals will be achieved. They have to be achieved in each… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Most people forget that even in Iraq, by the time the air and no-fly zone was established, the air defence system had… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The United Nations believes that acceptance of these principles will help the Palestinian people achieve their legitimate goal of an end to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I have always believed that on important issues, the leaders must lead. Where the leaders fail to lead, and people are really… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We at the U.N. have to take some of the blame, because we have not lowered expectations creating the impression we are… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The young and dynamic and idealistic people in the square do not have the chance to organise themselves politically, to be able… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us.… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Human rights education is much more than a lesson in schools or a theme for a day; it is a process to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
One of my biggest regrets was the fact that as an institution and an international community we could not stop the war… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The Arab spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence and everybody else wants it. How… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Change is a process which has to be managed. If it's managed and managed well in the interest of the nation and… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The international community... allows nearly 3 billion people - almost half of all humanity - to subsist on $2 or less a… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous,… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
When people say the U.N. is useless, I ask the question, which U.N. are we talking about? We have the U.N. that… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
If we can come up with innovations and train young people to take on new jobs, and if we can switch to… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
My own advice to people who would be in office for two or three terms is that they must accept democratic rotation:… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
