Universal Values Quotes

An ethic is not international until it is internationally acknowledged and practiced as the rule, exceptions to which are visited with disgrace if not with punishment.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: Freedom; Justice; Honor; Duty; Mercy; Hope.

My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

The yearnings of freedom are not a Western import; they are a human instinct.

It is essential to understand that the U.N.'s strength lies in its values. The values enshrined in the Charter, the values the U.N. stands for, the values all religions respect.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be - how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we'd actually be having an argument about those values.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind. To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas, sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love, compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy. It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite.

We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

We believe that human rights transcend boundaries and must prevail over state sovereignty.

… the international Magna Carta of all mankind

I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.

Patriotism is a noble feeling insofar as it approaches that which is purely human, but the very reverse the further it is removed therefrom.

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

Strange isn’t it? We are all democrats now.

I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

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.