All Quotes

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.
‐‐ Stephen Harper

Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
‐‐ Shirin Ebadi

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.
‐‐ Rodrigo Duterte

Human rights, of course, must include the right to religious freedom, understood as the expression of a dimension that is at once individual and communitarian - a vision that brings out the unity of the person while clearly distinguishing between the dimension of the citizen and that of the believer.
‐‐ Pope Benedict XVI

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

Human Rights Watch wants Rwandans to be able to speak freely about their ethnic hatreds, and to allow political parties connected with the defeated genocide army to campaign freely for power.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer

Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
‐‐ Townes Van Zandt

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

Human security recognizes the importance of individuals and that the key to ensuring growth in developing countries is to foster individual talent and abilities, build self-reliance, and put people in a position to make a broader contribution to society. Growth must be inclusive, and no one must be left behind.
‐‐ Shinzo Abe

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Human settlements are like living organisms. They must grow, and they will change. But we can decide on the nature of that growth - on the quality and the character of it - and where it ought to go. We don't have to scatter the building blocks of our civic life all over the countryside, destroying our towns and ruining farmland.
‐‐ James Howard Kunstler

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.
‐‐ Ana Castillo

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.
‐‐ Jared Diamond

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.
‐‐ Alejandro Jodorowsky

Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
‐‐ Gustave Flaubert

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.
‐‐ Bernard Beckett

Human spirit, things that aren't tangible, fascinate me, so I'm always researching mind, spirit, soul.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time.
‐‐ Dhani Jones

Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
‐‐ Barbara Block

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.
‐‐ Jeff Fortenberry

Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at home.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.
‐‐ Frank Tipler

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
‐‐ Jose Saramago

'Human' was controversial within The Killers way before it was controversial to the rest of the world! It caused some problems within the band. Not to throw anybody under the bus, but it was pretty much me and Dave against Mark and Ronnie for a little while. We were standing up for the song.
‐‐ Brandon Flowers

Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.
‐‐ Sam Harris

Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
‐‐ John Ralston Saul

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
‐‐ Christopher Dawson

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
‐‐ Simone Weil

Humanistic values of equality and equal rights for all nations and individuals as crystallized in the principles of the United Nations Charter are mankind's great achievements in the 20th century.
‐‐ Tran Duc Luong

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
‐‐ Arthur E. Morgan

Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.
‐‐ Sergei Lavrov

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.
‐‐ Alvin Adams

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
‐‐ James Larkin

Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
‐‐ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
‐‐ Arthur Peacocke

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
‐‐ Radhanath Swami

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

Humanity has nearly suffocated the globe with carbon dioxide, yet nuclear power plants that produce no such emissions are so mired in objections and obstruction that, despite renewed interest on every continent, it is unlikely another will be built in the United States.
‐‐ Michael Specter

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.
‐‐ Peace Pilgrim

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
‐‐ Isaac Asimov