Kofi Annan Quotes

We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

We need a new kind of citizenship, so that we can see citizens as themselves earning the rank of patriot because of their involvement in their community affairs....We as a society need to be encouraging people to focus not just on individual wants but on serving the larger community.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

The most important office, ... that of private citizen.

From a very early age, I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave the country as good as he had found it.

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and save the world. You sent money to the Red Cross, you registered people to vote, you marched in rallies, stood in vigils, picked up litter.

People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens.

Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

Will you be a spectator or a citizen? To make a difference in this world, you must be involved.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That's the important thing.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Really important issues are getting lost, so I can say I'm glad to be a citizen of the planet and do my part.

I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.

Please, please, stop referring to yourselves as 'consumers.' OK? Consumers are different than citizens. Consumers do not have obligations, responsibilities and duties to their fellow human beings.

I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

I try to focus moment to moment on being an aware, responsible, contributive member of society. You see trash on the ground, pick it up!