“It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.”
Others on Human Rights
Thomas Paine
3 quotes“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
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.”
John Locke
2 quotes“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
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.”
Thomas Carlyle
1 quote“Man is a tool-using animal.”
Bono
1 quote“Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die.”
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.”