Basic Human Quotes

107 quotes by 90 authors

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're… — Martha Beck
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the… — Steven Biko
I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it's one that's easily corrected.… — Jimmy Carter
There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our only basic human… — P.J. O'Rourke
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and… — Marian Wright Edelman
Citizenship has not delivered Indigenous Australians the same quality of life other Australians expect. Basic human rights involve health, housing, education, employment, economic opportunity, and… — Jackie Huggins
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and exercise… — John Michael Sherlock
The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows us to view… — John Shelby Spong
I have discovered in a lifetime of traveling in primitive regions, a lifetime of seeing people living in the wilderness and using it, that there… — Sigurd F. Olson
There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to… — Dalai Lama
The majority of humankind does not accept this system, despite claims of worldwide support. Even with Russia's ratification, 75% of the world's CO2 is emitted… — Andrey Illarionov
If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds… — Vaclav Havel
Everyone does what they can to avoid thinking. Laziness is the most basic human trait. People don't want to think -- they can't make the… — Vera Chytilova
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural… — Carl Jung
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of… — Abraham Maslow
Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which… — Hannah Arendt
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who… — Mark Rothko
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in… — Peter Zumthor
Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves… — Noah Feldman

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