Human Rights Award

Famous quotes containing the words human, rights and/or award:

“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves ... is what I call hell.”
—André Malraux (1901–1976)

“The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)