List of Boutros Boutros-Ghali Quotes

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Boutros Boutros-Ghali
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I used to say i never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
Used Successors Predecessors
We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.
Realizing Genocide Machetes
There is a greater fatigue concerning the african problem today than five or 10 years ago. the situation now in africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.
Years Today Problem
The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to change, or you will forget a certain reality, and you will just take in consideration your view today.
Writing Reality Views
But at the beginning, our definition of the genocide was what happened to armenia in 1917 or 1919, it's happened to the jew in europe, and we were not realizing - in our point of view, they have not the tools to do a genocide.
Views Europe Armenia
So this is why i'm always say happy that somebody mentions rwanda, because behind rwanda, we have africa.
Rwanda Behinds
In yugoslavia, i'd asked for additional forces too. i even went to meet the french prime minister, and i proposed additional forces... nobody wanted to send troops.
Yugoslavia Troops Prime
Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. they were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.
Country Class Would Be
The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.
Way Violence Stealth
We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction
Agents World Destruction
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.
Long Democracy Principles
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.
Egypt Other Cultures Play
  • Born: November 14, 1922
  • Died: February 16, 2016
  • Occupation: Politician
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