“All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
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Thomas Paine
3 quotes“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
Nelson Mandela
2 quotes“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”
Robert Louis Stevenson
2 quotes“Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.”
Immanuel Kant
2 quotes“Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.”
Dean Koontz
2 quotes“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”
Walt Whitman
2 quotes“If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.”
Will Durant
1 quote“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.”
Erich Fromm
1 quote“Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.”
Jonathan Safran Foer
1 quote“It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.”
Will Rogers
1 quote“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”
Frederick Douglass
1 quote“There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”
Ludwig von Mises
1 quote“If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, th...”