"We were not realizing that, with just a……" — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
"We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide."
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27 Quotes by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of…
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Co-operative enterprises provide the organisational means whereby a significant proportion of humanity is able to take into its own hands…
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The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics
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Water will be more important than oil this century
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It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is…
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The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or…
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The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with…
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But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to Armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened…
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There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in…
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So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
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Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind…
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We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great…
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Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the…
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to…
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The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops…
— Lakhdar Brahimi
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Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain.…
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of…
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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