Human Rights Empowerment Quotes

#1. My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

Hans Rosling

#2. A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.

Thomas Carlyle

#3. While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
While quacks of State must each produce his plan,
And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

Robert Burns

#4. So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.

Mallory Ortberg

#5. Apollo was still a no-show and the cabin out in the middle of nowhere had become a god-free zone. A good thing, but I figured one would just pop in, most likely in Deacon's bed or something, where we'd least expect them.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head.

David Letterman

#7. Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Otto Von Bismarck

#8. [T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields.
[Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)]

United Nations

#9. Social awkwardness is not a crime.

Idir Aitsahalia

#10. Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

Mahnaz Afkhami

#11. I happen to like Precisionism. It talks to me because I collect Cubism.

Leonard Lauder

#12. I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man's and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.

Caroline George

#13. God's big enough that small doesn't matter.

N.D. Wilson

#14. The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Benito Mussolini

#15. The impossible is negotiable.
What is possible is malleable.

David Mitchell

#16. All men are rapists and that's all they are

Marilyn French

#17. A real translation is transparent.

Walter Benjamin

#18. If someone had to lose weight, I would tell that person to lose weight. Lose some weight, why can't you take care of yourself. When I say this, the person might think, 'Look who's talking,' but I would reply, 'I'm a boy and you're a girl.'

Shindong

#19. Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind.He said: I made the Iliad from such
A local row. Gods make their own importance.

Patrick Kavanagh

#20. Person-centred counselling may be thought of as 'not enough'. In my experience it is. It allows for self-determination through an acknowledgement of a person's human rights.

Suzanne Keys