There is never a humanitarian solution for a humanitarian crisis. The solutions for the humanitarian crisis are always political ones.
Antonio GuterresRead
We want the world our children inherit to be defined by the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter: peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of instilling values of peace and respect in the world we leave for future generations.
Antonio Guterres highlights the necessity of ensuring that the values enshrined in the U.N. Charter, such as peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity, are passed on to the next generations. He advocates for a world that reflects these vital principles, suggesting that our current actions and values will shape the future for our children.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech addressing global leaders at a conference on human rights.
There is never a humanitarian solution for a humanitarian crisis. The solutions for the humanitarian crisis are always political ones.
As a global society, we have the technology, resources and the know-how to make a massive difference to living standards everywhere, including for refugees.
The world's problems transcend borders.
Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle.
The fact that societies are becoming increasingly multi-ethnic, multicultural, and multi-religious is good. Diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.
It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
When I'm working on a book, I try to do eight pages a week. That seems like a good amount. Less than that, I'm not getting a nice momentum, and more than that, I'm probably putting out too much crap.
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher
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