Quotes
Authors
Kofi Annan

"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 and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity."

Source : "Press Briefing by Manoel de Almeida e Silva Spokesman for the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and by UN agencies". www.un.org. September 16, 2004.

Kofi Annan

#Religious Quotes #Effort Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.”
“I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, â€œNever give up hope, spring will come.â€”
“Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning.”
“Time is an enormous, long river, and Iâ€™m standing in it, just as youâ€™re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they thought and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created, and every poem that they laid down flows down to me â€“ and if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to see, and if I take the time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world”
“State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.”
“I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I'm a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up”

Source : Song: Valentine, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012
“The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.”

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