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Human Rights Quotes

God's interest in the human race is nowhere better evinced than in obstetrics

The "self-image" is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

Maxwell Maltz

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King Jr

Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.

Louis D. Brandeis

You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don’t see you as human.

Shawn Wayans

Privacy is the right to be alone–the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.

Louis D. Brandeis

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

William J. Brennan, Jr

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

Orrin Hatch

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

Edmund Burke

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Vera Brittain

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Thomas Merton

I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence.

Jim Harrison

The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

William James

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world

Gene Tunney

Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children

M. Meyer

The land is like poetry: it is inexplicably coherent, it is transcendent in its meaning, and it has the power to elevate a consideration of human life.

Barry Lopez

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

Rae Foley

Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems.

Jane Jacobs

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Hesiod

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Louis de Bernieres

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

Billy Graham

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition

Graham Greene

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

Abraham Lincoln

The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.

Ayn Rand

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