Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.


Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the torment...
ELIE WIESEL
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
The mindset of the poor;I need more college degrees to be able to make impact in life.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Is Japan turning Communist? Stop. Need 1,000 words soonest.
THE INDEPENDENT
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
.מסכן, אתה כמו ספר ילדים בלי תמונות
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ
It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the...
BULENT ECEVIT
Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are no...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We ...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serv...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them bet...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
He urged for international pressure on [Israeli] Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon to end the attacks.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
It can perhaps seem that this area is plagued by an endless string of crises and that it's impossibl...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to creat...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who ...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
To exchange principles for popularity might be a temptation. It's at the core of populism. We must o...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
I am disappointed by such a political defeat, but we had been prepared for the possibility.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of nationa...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; it...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS
You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS
The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS

More Kjell Magne Bondevik

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are no...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We ...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serv...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them bet...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
He urged for international pressure on [Israeli] Prime Minister [Ariel] Sharon to end the attacks.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
It can perhaps seem that this area is plagued by an endless string of crises and that it's impossibl...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to creat...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Villa Grande has in many ways symbolized an important, but less than pleasant, part of our history.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who ...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
To exchange principles for popularity might be a temptation. It's at the core of populism. We must o...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
I am disappointed by such a political defeat, but we had been prepared for the possibility.
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
Over the past few days, I have had a sense that I´ve had to keep up to several thoughts in my mind ...
NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
It is not hard to find qualified women for top jobs, you have to network and look consciously.
NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
I have said it a thousand times before, and now I say it the third and the last time.
NORWEGIAN PRIME MINISTER KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK
One hour of calling a day during 200 working days over 10 years give 2,000 hours.
KJELL MILD
The way to get the risk down is to use hands-free.
KJELL MILD
Everything was very old; no software, no Internet, and their computer science program consisted of p...
KJELL RYE
Half our team is always female, and we require that of visited countries. If they don't have it, the...
KJELL RYE
We could have very well came to the airport with all our gear, and that would have been a disaster b...
KJELL RYE
We are not at all disappointed that the Norwegian government isn't planning to intervene. In fact, a...
KJELL MORTEN JOHNSEN
That will also positively influence the price offered to the minority shareholders.
KJELL MORTEN JOHNSEN