Human Right Quotes

The right to communicate is a basic human right, and I believe that putting that on every national agenda is very important. — Hamadoun Toure

Anger diminishes our power to distinguish right from wrong, and this ability is one of the highest human attributes. If it is lost, we are lost. — Dalai Lama XIV

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom. — John Quincy Adams

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight. — Igor Sikorsky

When you are falling short in vocabulary to explain the emotion in your story.Than you are writing the right story — Tushar Upreti

Every person who comes is a human being and has the right to be treated as such. — Angela Merkel

Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right. — Dave Eggers

You can't kill us all, human.'
He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line? — Laurell K. Hamilton

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along. — Athol Fugard

There's no need for drama and hate, y'all. Let's love each other! We're all human, right? — Taylor York

Health is a human necessity; health is a human right — James Lenhart

If we all learnt cat-speak, we would often find they are saying, "You stupid human, I am trying to tell you something important right now! — Leah Broadby

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. — Laurens Van Der Post

You will never understand." "You may be right. But it is my human imperative to try. — Rick Yancey

Enlightenment should be a human right. — B.W. Powe

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again. — Arthur Conan Doyle

However, no human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is. — Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand

Someday ... , we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience. — Dennis Lehane

Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move. — Robert H. Schuller

Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way. — Wilkie Collins

Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand. — Pat Derby

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend him or herself. — Pope Francis

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat. — R. Buckminster Fuller

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine. — Kailash Satyarthi

Wars can be resolved. Human rights atrocities can be stopped. We just have to apply the right policies. — John Prendergast

Access to the public library should be a basic human right. — Kaitlyn Dunnett

Does the unborn human fetus have at any point the right to live? — Dennis Prager

It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right. — Teri Reynolds

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

I am not human.
I am a cyborg.
I am mechanic.
That's all I am ... right? — Marissa Meyer

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right. — Martin O'Malley

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right. — Pope Francis

The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right. — Marya Mannes

A hybrid nature of organization strikes the right balance between "virtual world" and the human connections. — Pearl Zhu

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right. — Vernon Howard

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society. — John Galsworthy

I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. — Robert Breault

I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right ... Things are definitely changing." I can see that. — Kristen Stewart

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. — Robert G. Ingersoll

I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit. — Dr. Willie Parker

I'm right now standing inside Hamilton-Selway Fine Art as an artist, as a philanthropist, as a child of God, and more importantly as a human being. — Steven Jackson

Oh, sure. Go see if the human is all right. Don't mind me; I'll just lie here and try not to bleed on
everything. — Julie Kagawa

God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations. — Alexandre Vinet

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain. — Dalai Lama

There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Right conscience and at the higher level conscientious deeds (spirituality) is the order of civilised and society-responsible men — Priyavrat Thareja

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. — Dean Koontz

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person. — John Courtney Murray

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong. — Virgil

The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves. — Billy Graham

Hope is human natural right but they have to keep it. — Zaman Ali

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. — Peter Gay

No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil. — Melanie Phillips

It is right in principle that those should be the best loved who have contributed most to the elevation of the human race and human life. — Albert Einstein

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life. — Peter Kreeft

To err is human, but to forgive, well that's right on. — Vince Vaughn

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual. — Andrew Sullivan

In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right. — Nelson Mandela

When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right." Harris — Abraham Verghese

Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech. — Miroslav Volf

I realized the preserving a relationship at all costs was not as important as affirming the human right to be free from abusive treatment. — Rebecca Ann Parker

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself. — Robert Green Ingersoll

We in Europe ... do not consider the freedom to buy weapons a human right. — Gisela Kallenbach

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. — Anthony Kennedy

There is no iron that can enter the human heart with such stupefying effect, as a period placed at just the right moment. — Isaac Babel

The unmet need that can get met right now is the need to be whole, to be both your magnificent, divine self and your imperfect, human self. — Debbie Ford

If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right? — Paul Farmer

I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You're a normal human being. What right have you to that? — Doris Lessing

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.' — Russell Brand

If a sweet dumpling took human form, it would look just like Aunt Tildy, right down to the flour-dusting of her gray hair. — Rae Carson

The right to life is the first among human rights. — Pope Francis

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

Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. — Barbra Streisand

Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need. — Dalai Lama

Chickens are interesting individuals who have as much right not to be cooked and eaten as a dog or a cat or even a human being. — Bruce Friedrich

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. — Frank Herbert

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war. — Paddy Ashdown

Is it logical that two people can disagree and that both can be right? It's not logical: it's psychological. And it's very real. — Stephen R. Covey

Connectivity is a human right. — Mark Zuckerberg

Nothing is better for the human being than to add the right amount of honey to his food. — Rudolf Steiner

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to. — George Orwell

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. — Ayn Rand

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders. — Shakira

People will never get in touch with democracy. It's always surrounded by bodyguards. — Ljupka Cvetanova

Get up, stand up and look up into your future as an independent human being. Every one has the right to an independent life, especially us Aspies. — Jeanette Purkis

One of the tragic facts of human relations is the failure of people to realize that what they put out to other people they get right back from them. — Les Giblin

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being. — Elizabeth Strout

It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work. — Eleanor Roosevelt

We have known since the 1800s that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere. The right amount keeps the climate conducive to human life. — James Hansen

Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are. — Sameh Elsayed

Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right. — Ali Sina

Human beings, regenerate or unregenerate, have neither the right nor the competence to dictate to a sovereign God how He is to be worshipped. — Joseph C. Morecraft III

So, let me get this right...the big whoop about being human is that you get to die? — James Patterson

The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential. — Ray Stevens

Another woman told Constant what it was the crowd felt it had a right to. 'We have a right to know what's going on!' she cried. — Kurt Vonnegut

No human being believes that any other human being has a right to be in bed when he himself is up. — Robert Lynd

Access to safe water is a fundamental human need and therefore a basic human right. — Kofi Annan

The thinking at the epicenter of most human conflict: I'm right; you're wrong. — Charles F. Glassman