Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Thabo Mbeki

Our political relations can only go from strength to strength,

Ghazi Hamad

We need more talks to settle differences in the political agenda.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

Manouchehr Mottaki

It is a political declaration and it is unjust.

Chris Tarry

I think there is will, political and governmental, for a deal. And its about time.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Asa Hutchinson

I think (Oklahoma) has made it a political issue.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Jane Goodall

Some often refer to the population as 150,000.

Ernie Carson

If I recall correctly, there were probably 20 of us. I think the school population was 200 or 300.

Alan Lightman

Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

Edward Zwick

There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.

Abdul Kalam

We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

Daniel Quinn

Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population.

Ang Lee

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.