The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
Quote by Kofi Annan
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The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
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Kofi Annan Quotes
- We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.
- Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
- Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
- If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
- We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
- More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
- Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
- Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
- There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
- In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
Best Quotes
- Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
- My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
- Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
- That's what's nice about directing a film and having it done: There's nothing more I can do about it. It's done. That's it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it.
- He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
- Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- 'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.
- Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
- Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
- Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.