Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Brendon Urie

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Thomas Sowell

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load.

Suzanne Vega

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

Thomas Carlyle

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Vaclav Havel

Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied, indirectly, to all people. This is why we cannot remain silent in the face of evil or violence; silence merely encourages them.

Goolam Ballim

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Richard Bove

It would have been difficult for Goldman not to do well. Goldman is more oriented to equities than debt, and stocks rose throughout the period.

Mike Wilson

This is a practical, rational restructuring of the debt.

Albert Einstein

Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Ambrose Bierce

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Suze Orman

Learn how to prioritize all your debt. And did you know student loan debt is the most dangerous debt any of us can have?

Robert A. Heinlein

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

Michael Hudson

Mathematically, debts grow exponentially at compound interest. Banks recycle the interest into new loans, so debts grow exponentially, faster than the economy can afford to pay.

Derrick Jensen

The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world.

Christopher Paolini

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Robert McNamara

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Raquel Zimmermann

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

Simone de Beauvoir

I take on a shape and an existence only if I first throw myself into the world by loving, by doing.

Timothy Radcliffe

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Robert A. Heinlein

You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.

Steven Hatfill

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Rosamunde Pilcher

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).