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- If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
- We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's…
- If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more…
- Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so…
- The past year's natural disasters have highlighted the invaluable contributions of volunteers in our communities. They have volunteered their time, energy and skills to save…
- The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
- In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only…
- Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and…
- As I travel around the world, people think the only place where there is potential conflict [over] water is the Middle East, but they are…
- To look into some aspects of the future, we do not need projections by supercomputers. Much of the next millennium can be seen in how…
- This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.
- In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a…
- Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality…
- A citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of…
- We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace…
- Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized…
- I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument…
- You have made people listen. You have made people care, and you have taught us that whether we are poor or prosperous, we have only…
- Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with…
- Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty…
- A world government can intervene militarily in the internal affairs of any nation when it disapproves of their activities.
- Let us all reaffirm our commitment to improving the well- being of families throughout the world.
- World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call on all partners…
- On this International Day of UN Peacekeepers, let us pay tribute to the men and women from countries across the world who serve selflessly, tirelessly…
- This is a day on which we pay our respects to those who have endured the unimaginable. This is an occasion for the world to…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach