“What is soft power? It is the ability to get what you want through attraction rather than coercion or payments. It arises… — Joseph S. Nye Jr Copy Share Image
“Of all the attempts to propel Singapore faster along the path of political liberalisation, few have backfired as badly as the West's… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
I said that there is considerable alienation among the people of Kashmir which is primarily because of the human rights excesses by… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
The first piece of advice I would have from my experience is that governments need to be vocal about human rights. — Amal Clooney Copy Share Image
Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save… — Ashly Lorenzana Copy Share Image
What better way to celebrate 50 years of defending human rights than over a candlelit dinner with friends and family. — Adriano Zumbo Copy Share Image
“After almost 70 years of being paralysed into silence by the Zionist venom — the accusation of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial —… — William Hanna Copy Share Image
I have noticed encouraging signs in the fight against religious intolerance, and I am impressed by the outstanding degree of human rights… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Go on philosophers--teach, enlighten, kindle, think aloud, speak up, run joyfully toward broad daylight, fraternize in the public squares, announce the glad… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
“This is a landmark step in internationalizing our laws by fostering the trend of a globalized human rights regime of shared values.” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights. — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
It is within the family that children learn the values that will guide them for the rest of their lives. It is… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It… — Alexander Downer Copy Share Image
We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The administration [ of Barack Obama ]says I`m wrong, that there`s nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The U.S.-led western alliance, while acting as an advocate of democracy, rule of law and human rights, is acting from the opposite… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
My life is split in three parts; I don't know the percentage. One could be called "chess" - the Kasparov Chess Foundation,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image