Juan Somavia famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.
-- Juan Somavia

#Respect #People #Dignity
Decent work is at the heart of the search for dignity for the individual, stability for the family and peace in the community
-- Juan Somavia

#Heart #Community #Dignity
...180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.
-- Juan Somavia

#Children #Kids #Together
We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social policies with an enabling environment for private initiative to create market opportunities for Decent Work.
-- Juan Somavia

#Opportunity #Focus #Needs
Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers
-- Juan Somavia

#Country #Giving #Migrants
I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on local development, that would command the support of all stakeholders and all international organizations concerned, should be awarded the [Nobel] prize. I am sure they would get it not just for economics, but also for peace in the world.
-- Juan Somavia

#Team #Thinking #Organization
What we need is political leadership which can give guidance to the development of global governance. We need business leadership which goes beyond shareholder value to understand the needs and fears of other stakeholders and their communities.
-- Juan Somavia

#Giving #Community #Political
Nearly one billion women and men, a third of the world's workforce, are either unemployed or unable to earn enough to keep themselves out of extreme poverty. There are 100 million new entrants into the labour market each year. Up to 90 percent in some regions are in the informal economy. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous
-- Juan Somavia

#Children #Kids #Men
The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.
-- Juan Somavia

#Mean #Past #Slavery

Only those who respect the personality of others can be of real use to them.
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it
I don't have any understanding of a human being who doesn't respect the beauty of life and that goes for all creatures that have thoughts, feelings and needs.
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.
What Iâ€™ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. Youâ€™ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
Dignity of manner always conveys a sense of reserved force.

Juan Somavia famous quotes

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