Human Quote by Chris Grayling

It was in that uncertain world that the European Convention on Human Rights was shaped. Written by Conservatives, it set out the principles which…

— Chris Grayling

The core of human rights work is naming and shaming those who commit abuses, and pressuring governments to put the screws to abusing states.…

— Michael Ignatieff

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

— Ai Weiwei

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

— Mary Robinson

“The concept of human rights had been invented by people who were thinking only of human beings”

— Yōko Tawada

The right to life is the first among human rights.

— Pope Francis

“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

Human rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al…

— John Yoo

The entire global 'Human Rights' framework, rooted in the 1951 U.N. Refugee Convention and made up of nebulous NGOs and institutions, is a construct…

— Anna Paulina Luna

What I'm trying to bring attention to is that human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first…

— Nikki Haley

“human rights" cannot serve as a stable, shared basis for morality in a society riven by fundamental disagreement about what "human" means, as is…

— Brad S. Gregory

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