Human rights Quote by Filip Spagnoli

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

— Lynn Hunt

“To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

— Nelson Mandela

“If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Human rights that do not apply to everyone are not human rights at all.”

— Volker Beck

“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

“Most human-rights activists sincerely believe in the existence of human rights.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Anonymous

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

— Thom Hartmann

“Without a criterion enabling us to distinguish genuine human rights from the many impostors we will never be sure that our legal provisions, however…

— Roger Scruton

“Human rights; they are in the hands of mankind and nowhere else.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Human rights are universal and indivisible. Human freedom is also indivisible: if it is denied to anyone in the world, it is therefore denied,…

— Vaclav Havel

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

— Yōko Tawada