Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aung San Suu Kyi

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

Eldridge Cleaver

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

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.

Tommy Shaw

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

John Rawls

The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.

Mark Steyn

The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.

Peter Benenson

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Peter Benenson

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for

Mason Cooley

I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.

Alain Badiou

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Alberto Manguel

Evil requires no reason.

E. M. Forster

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Don DeLillo

Evil is movement towards void.

Don McLean

As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

Diogenes

Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."

Chuck Palahniuk

Find good in what the world says is evil.

Christopher Moore

She's so small, yet she contains so much evil.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Michael Beschloss

Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

Michael Bloomberg

Nobody's going to elect me president of the United States.

Michele Bachmann

The President of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day.

Michele Bachmann

Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again,