Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
– Thomas Carlyle
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- “Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show
- To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. – Nelson Mandela
- Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. – Abraham Lincoln
- Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. – Abraham Lincoln
- “If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.” – Thomas Carlyle
- If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he has to say, and make fun of it. – Thomas Carlyle
- Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. – Thomas Paine
- Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk. – Thomas Carlyle
- America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America. – Jimmy Carter
- America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America. – Jimmy Carter