Inspiring Human Rights Quotes

#1. The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"

Sidney Hook

#2. For the first time as a scrabbling, bickering species we stood united. Every sodding person on the planet looked up today and whispered the same question, whether it be in awe, greed, or terror. What's Out there? Answers were sure to be forthcoming, ready or not.

B.P. Gregory

#3. Why do you always answer a question with another question?" "Clarity," he said.

Michael Lewis

#4. Hell will freeze over before I send you any money for this unwarranted bill.

Jon Jones

#5. Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

Madeleine Albright

#7. I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.

Theodore Roethke

#8. The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

Ayn Rand

#9. Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot.

Trevor Rabin

#10. It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#11. To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of huger and deprivation is to dehumanize them. But such has been the terrible fate of all black persons in our country under the system of apartheid.

Nelson Mandela

#12. But sometimes, the things one thought could happen were the things that would never happen at all.

Lyss V.

#13. I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

Cherie Lunghi

#14. The external part of religion is doubtless of little value in comparison with the internal, and so is the cask in comparison with the wine contained in it: but if the cask be staved in, the wine must perish.

Thomas Hartwell Horne

#15. Your attitude towards life will define your altitude of success.

Debasish Mridha