Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

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.

Simon Cowell

When I was young and we got caught pinching apples, we got a smack from the local policeman. Today if that happened he would be sued. There is a tendency to punish the victim, not the criminal. If someone broke into my house or my mum's house, I worry that the burglar has more rights than me.

Aamir Khan

I've been advocating it as far back as 1994-95.

Greg Berlanti

We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.

Dick Cheney

very publicly lobbying the Congress of the United States advocating the use of terror.

Lisa Lange

CBS has no problem with airing commercial after commercial advocating the consumption of fried chicken, pork sausage and fast-food burgers, even though eating these products are making Americans fat, sick and boring in bed.

Ron Kind

If you are advocating a spending increase or a tax cut somewhere, you have got to find an offset to pay for it to maintain that balance.

Teresa Arnold

We've been advocating that this year in order to avoid people going into nursing homes. We think that if we had more home- and community-based services funded in this state that would prevent much more costly expenditures down the road.

Nate Feltman

The whole plan is a statewide plan, so Northwest Indiana has as much potential as any other part of the state.

Corey Maggette

I don't think Indiana is a better team than us. They just executed better than us.

Dee Brown

I'm just looking at Indiana on Sunday. You just have to worry about yourself. You have to win and see what happens.

Steve Alford

Indiana went about it a little different in how they did their search. I never got a phone call. I was never contacted.

Jim Thome

The Indians are going in a way they want to go and I respect that, ... I've loved that organization and I still will.

Dayananda Saraswati

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

Anupam Kher

I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.