“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
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Others on Human Rights
Thomas Paine
3 quotes“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
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.”
Nelson Mandela
2 quotes“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”
Albert Schweitzer
1 quote“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”
Horace
1 quote“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
Sophocles
1 quote“There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness”
Anne Rice
1 quote“To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.”
Horace Mann
1 quote“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
Thomas Carlyle
1 quote“Man is a tool-using animal.”