Absence Quote by Nelson Mandela

When I joined the UN War Crimes Tribunal, it was a realization of the dream of justice, that finally after Nuremberg, the UN is…

— Payam Akhavan

The main challenge is what to do in the face of double standards. Those who should be rendered accountable under international criminal law, the…

— Richard A. Falk

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

— Emma Goldman

“The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which…

— Robert H. Jackson

The moral authority in the Western world is gone. And it is gone forever. It is gone, not because of the criminal record--everybody's record…

— Anonymous

We are going to file a suit to the Hague tribunal, which must investigate into these crimes against humanity, it is a test for…

— Petro Poroshenko

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

— Isabel Allende

The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after…

— Haskell Wexler

Because we have sought to cover up past evil, though it still persists, we have been powerless to check the new evil of today.Evil…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

— Zhuangzi

A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a…

— Henry de Montherlant

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

— Carlos Fuentes