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Kofi Annan has 196 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
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In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
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It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
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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…
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which…
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In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of…
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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,…
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The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
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Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small…
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Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live…
— Holmes Rolston III
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
— J. B. Priestley
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In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs.
— Susan Sontag
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We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did,…
— John of Salisbury
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Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more…
— Terry Pratchett
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The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll…
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Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich…
— J M Coetzee
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We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
— Bernard of Chartres
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