About Quote by Tom Stoppard

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

— Anonymous

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

— Ai Weiwei

In general, talking about human rights tends to be very persuasive for people who care about human rights.

— Nicholas D. Kristof

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.

— Keir Starmer

“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

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

— Lynn Hunt

“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 are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you…

— Wangari Maathai

That term, 'human rights', makes me ill.Human rights are only for 'humans', therefore for the West. And for the rest of the Planet: there,…

— Andre Vltchek

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

it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities

— Randy Pausch

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

— Yōko Tawada