We rule out raising taxes this year.

It's better to die than to live on your knees.

UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

The path toward peace is much easier than the path toward war and confrontation.

I don't know if we're on the edge of the precipice, but we're in a very, very, very difficult situation.

Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.

Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy. The future of the euro is at stake in the next weeks.

The battle of the euro is being fought right now in Spain and Italy...The future of the euro is at stake in the next few weeks...

In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're waiting to see the Commission estimate.

The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once and for all. We have to proclaim that every human being is equal, in dignity, in freedom -and, as the first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, we have to live in a spirit of brotherhood.

A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.

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