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All Quotes Collection
"Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again."
214
"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."
Army,
81
"I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America."
51
"I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech."
51
"I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support."
177
"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."
50
"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation."
32
"New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work."
51
"UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists."
37
"While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world."
43
"Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action."
38
"In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children."
37
"In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children."
48
"For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer."
45
"By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein."
59
"And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights."
62
"If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second."
40
"In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day."
38
"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
122
"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
54
"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."
83
"Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires."
50
"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."
50
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
257
"Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography."
64
"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."
58
"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."
66
"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
64
"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
53
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