“Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.”

“If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.”

“Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.”

“A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones”

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”

“Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.”

“To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.”

“'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.”

“No man has received from nature the right to command his fellow human beings.”

“There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.”

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.”

“[T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.”