Shirin Ebadi Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Violence, Lasting Love, Lasting

  "Shirin 'Ebadi – Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate". Interview with Amir Taheri, www.memri.org. October 19, 2003.

• Those who don't understand any language other than the language of force and violence don't respect human dignity. They seek violence because they will be irrelevant without it. We should not go their way.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Way, Violence, Dignity

• I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Civilization, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

• Unfortunately, violence begets violence. And this is how the war on terrorism seems to be going at this juncture. A lot of people are losing their lives. Many children are losing their parents. Too many houses are being destroyed. And, unfortunately, the arms industry seems to flourish.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Children, War, People

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 2, 2004.

• When there is enough oxygen in the air for everyone, no one is going to take to violence in order to access it. But if there were not enough of it for everyone then people would result to violence in order to get it. Therefore we have to improve the conditions to have better human beings.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Air, Oxygen, Order

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

• The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights. Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. I know of no civilization that tolerates or justifies violence, terrorism, or injustice. There is no civilization that justifies the killing of innocent people. Those who are invoking cultural relativism are really using that as an excuse for violating human rights and to put a cultural mask on the face of what they're doing.

  Shirin Ebadi

  People, Violence, Human Rights

  Source: progressive.org

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