Mahnaz Afkhami famous quotes

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Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

#Justice #Majority #Development
Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

#Equality #Rights #Empowerment
...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without structured assistance and compassionate help.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

#Peace #Mean #Justice
As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

#Moving #Progress #Twenties
The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

#Spiritual #War #Knowledge
The connection between women's human rights, gender equality, socioeconomic development and peace is increasingly apparent.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

#Equality #Rights #Connections
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

#Equality #Rights #Design
We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

#Peace #Blessed #Diversity
We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society
-- Mahnaz Afkhami

#Culture #Common #Achieve

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature...
We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
Political development should start at the grassroots.
Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

Mahnaz Afkhami famous quotes

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