"More countries have understood that women’s equality is a prerequisite for development." ― Kofi Annan Topic(s): Love More From Kofi Annan "Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community." "Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world." "Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations." More In Love "Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind."― William Shakespeare "We have become a society that can’t self-correct, that can’t address its obvious problems, that can’t pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that – for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati – we can’t wake up from."― Thomas Frank "If I can feel freedom then I can create."― Marc Newson