“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.”
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.”
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.”
Dag Hammarskjöld
1 quote“'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.”
J.K. Rowling
1 quote“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
Victor Hugo
1 quote“The sole social evil is darkness; humanity is identity, for all men are made of the same clay.”
John Green
1 quote“there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars”
Diderot
1 quote“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”
Pope John Paul II
1 quote“War is a defeat for humanity.”