Human rights Quote by Vladimir Sorokin

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our expectation is that the Russian Federation does its part to protect its own citizens in full respect of human rights principles.

— Federica Mogherini

Believe me, most of the people in Russia are seeing the West as a threat.

— Margarita Simonyan

Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and judgments to…

— Courtney Act

What right does the West have to constantly criticize Russia? There are a few things about the West that I don't like either. But…

— Vladimir Yakunin

Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It…

— Ibn Warraq

Russia despises the West. And is doing what it can to weaken the West.

— Daniel Fried

We want to work with the Russians. But we also have every right to expect the Russians to behave in a fashion and keeping…

— John McCain

“Whether we are willing to acknowledge it or not, the Western conception of human rights is really about the practices of other states--but never…

— Mark Gibney

What [Russians] want to do is undermine the Western liberal order.

— Daniel Fried

We need to develop respect for our history, despite all of its flaws, and love for the Fatherland. We need to pay the utmost…

— Vladimir Putin

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not…

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky