Human Rights Committee

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

    “To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.”
    —James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)

    “Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”
    —Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)