Paul Polman Quotes

It's up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

As a human being, I'm concerned about the world that I live in. So, I'm concerned about peace. I'm concerned about - about man's inhumanity to man. I'm concerned about the environment.

You can't help but feel all the human-rights issues.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

I'm more interested in politicians who deal with human rights in their own country rather than lecture the rest of the world.

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.

Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made.

There is no military government on earth that does not have human rights abuses.

There were 40,000—45,000 people killed. They were no less important than I am. I want to bring Habre to justice. I can name names and clear up many things. I am ready to face justice as well for what I have done …. During the night, prisoners were executed discretely …. I knew that everyone I arrested would be tortured.

It is both wrong and short-sighted to believe that we can better protect our national security interests by ignoring or sidelining human rights.

The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

More attention should be given to the Arab world and the human rights abuse that is taking place every day in many countries in the Arab world.

If human rights are an attribute of being human, then we must consider the fact that tens of millions of displaced people around the world have been rendered less than human.

I do think that every super power on the globe has a very poor record on human rights.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

Abuse of human rights and international law demand resolution - whoever is responsible.

As an investigative filmmaker, I helped expose atrocities committed by ISIS against women and girls. They are evil, and we have to stop them.

Human rights in China should absolutely play a role in broader U.S. policy toward China. When we look the other way on fundamental issues of human rights, we are also responsible.

There is no country in this world that is immune to violating human rights.