The most important element of a free society where individual rights are held in the highest esteem is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Today Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.
If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium tonight is a sad night for athletics.
I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So for me I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.
We all would like to see a brighter future for Haiti and I hope this conference will serve to explore many views. Respect for human rights freedom and the rule of law must be established in the poorest nation in our hemisphere.
Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.
Since achieving their independence in 1992 the people of Croatia have built a democratic society based on the rule of law respect for human rights and a free market economy.
The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market it is a guarantee of democracy freedom justice and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.
Terrorism can never be accepted. We must fight it together with methods that do not compromise our respect for the rule of law and human rights or are used as an excuse for others to do so.
How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies that respect human rights that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?
The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is that so far as she is concerned their rights are protected.
For about ten years now the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we as a people assume responsibility?
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
The respect for human rights essential if we are to use technology wisely is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary it is integral to science as also to scholarship in general.