Character Quote by Brad S. Gregory

The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have…

— Mary Midgley

“Humans are born with human rights. Those human rights are inherent—”

— Thom Hartmann

“Human rights are difficult to pin down because their definition, indeed their very existence, depends on emotions as much as on reason.”

— Lynn Hunt

There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans…

— Vint Cerf

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men…

— Angelina Grimke

“It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

— Anonymous

A 'human right' is, by definition, timeless. It cannot adhere to some societies and not others, at some times and not at other times.

— Tom Stoppard

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

— Ai Weiwei

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

— Tony Fernandes