John G. Healy Quotes

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

The promotion and preservation of human rights can and should be the driving force for world affairs.

Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

Liberals have been committed to the principles of human rights, international stability, and international justice. They have also sought international solutions to those problems which have demanded collective attention.

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

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

Every human being, including those who belong to the enemy, have rights.

… the international Magna Carta of all mankind

I call on all governments to join with the United States and the community of law-abiding nations in prohibiting, investigating, and prosecuting all acts of torture … and we are leading this fight by example.

Sooner of later, universal human rights will include the right not to be killed by the government.

I recognize no rights but human rights—I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Stability is a reasonable foreign policy goal, but not at the expense of 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.

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

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.

The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity.

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.

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable.

The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

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.