Ban Ki-moon Quotes
Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or without blood on his hands - and these definitions are also unclear to me - should not be sitting in our custody.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
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I studied Morse code.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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It is absolutely okay - actually preferable in some cases - to be weird.
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If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
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Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.
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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.
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Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
