Abdelaziz Bouteflika quotes

“A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.”
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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“A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankinds heritage.”
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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“I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.”
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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“If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.”
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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“Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.”
-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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“Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.”

“As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.”

“To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.”

“CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.”

“The consensus is clear. We need an immediate and determined shift to a clean, renewable economy. The continued mass burning of fossil fuels is inconsistent with a healthy, prosperous future for our civilization.”

“Society's needs come before the individuals needs”

“It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.”

“I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances”

“Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”

“There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.”

Source : Hans Kung's Address at the opening of the Exhibit on the World's Religions at Santa Clara University, March 31, 2005.