Civilization Quote by Matthew Woodring Stover

“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

The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years…

— Ayn Rand

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the…

— Kay Granger

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life…

— Mother Teresa

This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at…

— Tibor R. Machan

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and…

— Michael Douglas

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Tony Fernandes

Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are…

— Vaclav Havel

All beings want to live in peace and happiness, undisturbed. Therefore the concept of human rights is universal.

— Dalai Lama

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his…

— Robert Ringer

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