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- The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
- J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
- Atheism has no room for human rights.
- U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson, addressing 600 people at a prayer breakfast, March 1992 in Wisconsin
- The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned.
- U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
- The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Playboy Interview - March 1963
- The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
- Andrew Young, Playboy Interview - July 1977
- Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.
- Carl G. Jung, in the introduction to Frances G. Wickes' "Analysis der Kinderseele" (The Inner World of Childhood), 1931
- Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)
- No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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