Quotes
Human Rights Quotes By Famous People Of World
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
→ Dom Helder Camara
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
→ Pearl S. Buck
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
→ Taslima Nasrin
The evolution of the human rights movement clearly illustrates humanity’s ongoing struggle toward creating a better world.
→ Robert Alan
Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
→ 14th Dalai Lama
Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
→ Paulo Freire
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
→ Mohandas Gandhi
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
→ Martin Luther King
When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
→ Audre Lorde
Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
→ Robert F. Kennedy
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
→ Imelda Marcos
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
→ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.
→ Jimmy Carter
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
→ E. F. Schumacher
Human Rights Quotes and Sayings by Famous People of World
Last guys don’t finish nice.
→ Saul Alinsky
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
→ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.
→ Aung San Suu Kyi
I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
→ Charles Houston
Without peace, there is little hope for human rights.
→ Martin Ennals
Women’s empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.
→ Mahnaz Afkhami
A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you.
→ Ramsey Clark
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
→ Albert Camus
..In a world riven by inequity, medicine could be viewed as social justice work.
→ Paul Farmer
The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.
→ Shirin Ebadi
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
→ Stephen Biko
Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
→ Henry David Thoreau
I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.
→ Albert Einstein
I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.
→ Senator Miriam
If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.
→ Joichi Ito
The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.
→ Cesar Chavez
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
→ Abraham Lincoln
Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressures from below.
→ Roger Nash Baldwin
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.
→ Hannah Arendt
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
→ Mahnaz Afkhami
Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.
→ Dalai Lama
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
→ Roger Nash Baldwin
Together we can prevent genocide from happening again. Together we can make a better future for our children.
→ Dith Pran
If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?
→ Paul Farmer
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.
→ Jimmy Carter
Weekends Quotes and Sayings by Famous People Of World
Why wait for the weekend to have fun.
→ Loesje
There aren’t enough days in the weekend.
→ Rod Schmidt
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
→ Joseph Addison
Once we work harder at night and on weekends.
→ Claudia Schiffer
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
→ Lyndon B. Johnson
I hate weekends because there is no stock market.
→ Rene Rivkin
To Attila the Hun’s cavalry as “weekend warriors”.
→ Russell Baker
Man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
→ Rita Rudner
Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
→ Robert Parker
Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
→ Anthony Burgess
I’ve been thinking Hobbes On a weekend? Well, it wasn’t on purpose.
→ Calvin & Hobbes
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends.
→ Woody Allen
Pretend like it’s the weekend, … We could pretend it all the time.
→ Jack Johnson
Weekends don’t pay as well as weekdays but at least there’s football.
→ S.A. Sachs
A weekend update correction last week all 29 stories we reported were.
→ Kevin Nealon
One of my friends went on a murder weekend… now he is doing life for it.
→ Jack Dee
Even up here on Vancouver on the weekends, I go work out in a studio space.
→ Dule Hill
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
→ Bill Watterson
Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
→ Edgar Watson Howe
If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.
→ Jimmy Swaggart
Everyone agrees the level of surfing here this weekend was the highest they’ve seen. It was insane.
→ Alex Gray
Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
→ Marilyn Savant
Old timers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
→ Casey Stengel
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
→ Chuck Palahniuk
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
→ Jack Stein berger
Charm Quotes and Sayings By Famous People of World
Charm is more than beauty.
→ Yiddish Proverb
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
→ Cornelius Tacitus
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
→ Samuel Johnson
A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
→ Anita Brookner
Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
→ Henry James
A really plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
→ Edgar Saltus
When you feel bad about yourself you reverse your magnet and repel people.
→ S A Grafio
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others.
→ John Mason Brown
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
→ Henri Frédéric Amiel
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
→ Henry Van Dyke
. . . music oft hath such a charm to make bad good and good provoke to harm.
→ William Shakespeare
He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism, which can only be called It.
→ Elinor Glyn
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
→ Oscar Wilde
Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
→ William Congreve
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
→ Oscar Wilde
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
→ Albert Camus
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
→ Cyril Connolly
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
→ Josh Billings
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
→ Logan Pearsall Smith
We are all born charming, fresh, and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
→ Judith Martin
There’s a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
→ John Erskine
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
→ Wolfgang Amadeus
It’s a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else; and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t much matter what else you have.
→ James Matthew
“Charm” which means the power to effect work without employing brute force is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm.
→ Havelock Ellis