Human rights Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Download Open image “It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human rights Responsibility Rights Time West
That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the Planet: there,… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Whether we are willing to acknowledge it or not, the Western conception of human rights is really about the practices of other states--but never… — Mark Gibney Copy Share Image
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do. — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Human rights transcend local or ethnocentric values, conferring equal dignity and value on all humanity regardless of sex, ethnicity, sexual preference, or religion. It… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and human dignity… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
Human rights represent absolute and universal values. They should be protected by all means we have at our disposal. — Miroslav Lajcak Copy Share Image
You have to see human rights as an all-embracing concept. It could be something that would unite the world, if it could only be… — Elizabeth Evatt Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I found out about Sister Song through Poppy Liu, who's on the show 'Hacks.' Reproductive rights are human rights, and I wanted to shine… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“. The understanding that what is good supports basic human rights and anything that threatens it is bad. We do not need a supernatural… — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“Whatever happened in those more than one hundred years, from the time my great-great-great grandfather studied law to the time when my own father… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
UN peacekeeping operations are now increasingly complex and multi-dimensional, going beyond monitoring a ceasefire to actually bringing failed States back to life, often after… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
America should be leading the world in green and clean solutions, and human rights. We shouldn't be leading the world in wars and incarceration… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
