Hideki Tojo Quotes

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to.

The supreme need of the world is peace and good will among men. It must be peace founded upon justice and fairness, the righting of past wrong, and the securing of the future as far as possible against the evils of the past.

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

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

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

Liberty Enlightening the World

The drive to create just societies has been among the fundamental forces in history -- and without doubt no lasting world civilization can be founded unless it is firmly grounded in the principle of justice.

No longer may the head of a state consider himself outside the law, and impose inhuman acts on the peoples of the world.

I wanted to help the world be more just.

Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.

Social justice is the surest guarantor of peace in the world.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Our ultimate objective in learning about anything is to try to create and develop a more just society.

I thought equality was non-negotiable.

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.

Justice is a fading light.

... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.

Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.