Human Rights Violations

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

“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)

“There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)