Tom Stoppard Quotes

Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

There should be a single standard in the world for human rights.

Abuse of human rights and international law demand resolution - whoever is responsible.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

I care about people's human rights and, as a country, we have a very proud record indeed. But I'm also realistic about what we can do... we can raise those issues with leaders and we can talk about those issues, and we do that.

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Sooner of later, universal human rights will include the right not to be killed by the government.

I recognize no rights but human rights—I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

As civilization advances there is a continual change in the standard of human rights.

That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal with human rights. We've got countries on the Human Rights Council right now like Venezuela and Cuba.

If human rights are an attribute of being human, then we must consider the fact that tens of millions of displaced people around the world have been rendered less than human.

It cannot be right in a world of increasing human progress - whether in medicine, space exploration or renewable energy - that so many people are denied the most basic human rights.

The Human Rights Convention was written by Conservatives in the aftermath of the Second World War. It was designed to combat the risk of another Holocaust, and to try to stop people being sent to prison camps without trial.

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights.

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there.