Human Quote by Antonio Guterres

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

— Joichi Ito

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

— Vladimir Putin

Human rights and international criminal law both illustrate the contradictory potential of international law. On one level, the imposition of human rights norms is…

— Richard A. Falk

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

— Noam Chomsky

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore individual citizens have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes…

— Edward Snowden

The Human Rights Act is not a terrorists' charter. It enables ordinary citizens to seek redress when the government breaches fundamental freedoms enshrined in…

— Emily Thornberry

The fight against terrorism is a legitimate fight. And certainly whoever commits terrorism should be brought to justice. Unfortunately, the United States and a…

— Shirin Ebadi

Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due…

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

I think we have a very critical role to play, within the spectrum of international law and human rights.

— Jill Stein

Who can be a greater transgressor of human rights than a terrorist?

— Sushma Swaraj

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

— Michelle Bachelet