Kofi Annan quotes

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Often we mistake stability, in terms of security and economic activity, to mean a country is doing well. We forget the third and important pillar: rule of law and respect for human rights.

The Arab Spring reminds me a bit of the decolonisation process where one country gets independence, and everybody else wants it.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

The skills you need to fight the colonial power and the skills you need to gain independence are not necessarily the same you need to run a country.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen.

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.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

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.

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

I think it is not just the U.N. speaking, but the concept of a third party, a third party to a conflict speaking out. You know, sometimes saying, 'Stop, this is enough. This cannot be allowed to happen,' gives the victims and the people who are caught in that situation courage, encouragement, support.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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.

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.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.