Kofi Annan Quotes

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly united; so that we can live up to the hopes that so many people around the world place in this institution, which is unique in the annals of human history.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

The U.N. cannot be run by the 'I.' It only works by the 'We.'

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable.

Global challenges also require global solutions, and few indeed are the situations in which the United States or any other country can act completely alone.

Like it or not, we are all in this together now, rich nations and poor alike …

It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental cooperation.

I do believe that the international community cannot act based on a rivalries or things of that sort.

My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.

All humanity share a common future, and we must work to try and shape it together. This is our duty, and it is our responsibility to our children and grandchildren.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

Global challenges require collective responses.

Peace and security of our planet must be based on the collective action of all nations, not a few, however powerful they may be.

The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity.

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.