Ali Khamenei

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from the people of the Third-World countries.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.