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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.


Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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MIGUEL MIRANDA Canada will continue to encourage the Afghan government to adhere to its human rights obligations.
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ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Human rights are indivisible. Freedom and security are not alternatives, they go hand-in-hand ... Mu...
GRAHAM WATSON America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights ...
JIMMY CARTER I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
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JAMIL DAKWAR Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights rec...
MICHAEL MCCAUL America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
ANNA LINDH The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the ...
HUMAN ANGELS Yesterday I was, tomorrow I will be, but only Here and Now I Am.
HUMAN ANGELS Human rights is new for the military. They usually see human rights as a scapegoat, an instrument us...
INDRIA SAMEGO We do not agree that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of the...
GRAHAM WATSON The possibility of preventative detention raises serious concern that such detention may be tantamou...
HINA JILANI Human rights and civil rights are at the forefront of today's society, even as much as they were in ...
DAVID HARRIS Human rights and civil rights are at the forefront of today's society, even as much as they were in ...
DAVID HARRIS Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail
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GEORGE A. ROMERO As far as the treatment of prisoners is concerned ... it is clear that all 25 member states having s...
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DERICK VIRGIL Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To ki...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.
RICKY MARTIN Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.
JOICHI ITO The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS We do not agree ... that the human rights of the victims are more important than the human rights of...
GRAHAM WATSON The whole thing is theater. The Americans want to pretend they defend human rights and are a civiliz...
MUNIR ABDEL SAHIB Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
HILLARY CLINTON Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
P.D. JAMES Fundamental rights or the human rights are not about having it in the constitution. It is about prac...
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AUNG SAN SUU KYI It is mostly art; not so much science. It is, above all, influencing human behavior.
CHARLES ABELL The UN Commission on Human Rights, whose membership in recent years has included countries - such as...
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TINA BROWN The moral authority of the United States depends on its working effectively with other countries to ...
KENNETH ROTH The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not s...
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CORETTA SCOTT KING Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.
RODRIGO DUTERTE This human rights violation is very unique. It does not happen in any other country, only in China,
HARRY WU Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of fami...
IMELDA MARCOS The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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SHIMON PERES To err is human, but it feels divine.
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CHUCK HAGEL a greater Albania, not the constitution not the human rights.
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DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN The EU-Iran human rights dialogue enables the European Union to work to improve the human rights sit...
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ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society pr...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT There are inalienable obligations as well as inalienable rights
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL Rights are to be taken not requested seized not begged for. Education is Human right
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SHIRIN EBADI It is a horrible violation of human rights and the law. They do not consider us to be people.
ALEKSANDR MILINKEVICH Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face...
SLAVOJ ZIZEK The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.
BREYTEN BREYTENBACH It is not good to have a constitution that would limit the liberties of people, the human rights, th...
MAHMOUD OTHMAN The definition of security must be broadened to encompass the security of people, as well as states....
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EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara...
JANE GOODALL building reconciliation between ethnic groups, issues of human rights, more tolerance and commitment...
MARY ROBINSON The possibility that a small number of states with deeply troubling human rights records could block...
PEGGY HICKS This [vote] is not an anti-Navy, anti-military, anti-American exercise, ... This is an exercise of p...
LUIS GUTIERREZ Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human r...
KAY GRANGER There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN When the U.S. and other Western powers commit such a gross violation of human rights, it further wea...
AFRASIAB KHATTAK As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth...
MAHATMA GANDHI Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive,
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SCOTT MCCLELLAN If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, ...
EAVAN BOLAND Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly o...
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN - Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN (Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
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