Famous quotes containing the words human, rights and/or violations:
“All human beings hang by a thread, an abyss may open under their feet at any moment, and yet they have to go and invent all sorts of difficulties for themselves and spoil their lives.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)
“Don’t forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.”
—Frederick The Great (1712–1786)
“All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)