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Human Quotes by Rebecca MacKinnon
- We’re at a point in history that whether the Internet is going to evolve in a way that’s compatible with democracy and human rights is…
- Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies will be used to carry out human rights abuses before doing…
- Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand our world. It depends on what information we are able…
- There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.
- Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they…
- Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting…
- Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are appeals by human…
- As in Pakistan, Tunisian and Egyptian human rights activists are concerned that any censorship mechanisms, once put in place, will inevitably be abused for political…
- Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong