Famous quotes containing the words human, rights and/or committee:
“Priest: Can’t you conceive of a truth too great for the human mind to analyze?
Dr. Henryk Savaard: Tonight, no. But tomorrow, I may know better.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)
“Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
“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)