Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes

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When I have tense relations with my wife, we speak Arabic. When we talk business, then we speak English. And when our relationship is better, then we talk French.

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The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

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The days of dictatorship are over. … We have come a long way. Millions of Egyptians and Iraqis have cast their votes at the ballot box. The Palestinians will follow suit.

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I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

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There are signs that the system of collective security established in San Francisco nearly 50 years ago [at the founding of the UN] is finally beginning to work as conceived... We are on the way to achieving a workable international system.

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Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead.

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While the broad principles of democracy are universal, the fact remains that their application varies considerably … We are at the beginning of the road, at the very beginning. We still have a long way to go.

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I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. … Education itself — which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people — sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour … It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.

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Cultural pluralism is as important as political and multi- party pluralism. Religious, linguistic and cultural pluralism are vitally important hallmarks of a true democracy. We are against cultural hegemony of any sort. Diversity is a mark of a healthy democracy.

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I am Boutros Boutros-Ghali; put down your guns and listen to Bob Marley.

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It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.

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No, because Disneyland is not an independent state.

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