Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Thomas Jefferson

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Thomas Jefferson

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Thomas Jefferson

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Thomas Jefferson

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

Anais Nin

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

Richard Paul Evans

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

Tyra Banks

Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up.

Sarah Dessen

Not for the first time, I wished both of us could just say what we meant. But that, like so much else, was impossible

Sarah Dessen

It's the same thing,' I told her. 'What is?' 'Being afraid and being alive.' 'No,' she said slowly, and now it was as if she was speaking a language she knew at first I wouldn't understand, the very words, not to mention the concept, being foreign to me. 'Macy, no. It's not.

Sarah Dessen

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

Sarah Dessen

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.

Sarah Dessen

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is true that many Americans find the (Ten) Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.