Civilisation Quote by Tariq Ramadan

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of…

— Margaret Mead

Freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law... are universal values of the human spirit.

— Robert C. O'Brien

I believe there are universal moral values - some of which are very well served by a cosmopolitan attitude. You can think that there…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.

— William Greider

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are…

— Andrew Solomon

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power;…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Everybody has value; even if to serve as a bad example.

— Attila the Hun

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

— Alice Schwarzer

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established…

— Pope Leo XII

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

— Mary Wortley Montagu