Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Quote by Kofi Annan
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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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Kofi Annan Quotes
- Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
- Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
- We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
- Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
- 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 world.
- If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
- If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
- Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
- Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
- More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Best Quotes
- When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
- The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
- My business is to prevent the future.
- I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
- If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
- Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
- I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.