Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

The most general rights, which belong to all mankind, may be said to be the right to life, to liberty and to property.

America didn't invent human rights. Those rights are common to all people: nations, cultures, and religions cannot choose to simply opt out of them.

I am willing to take any measures when it comes to the fundamental principle of human rights.

There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.

The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.

Today, many human rights take the forms of claims.

Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being’s entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign...

My belief in human rights includes a fundamental principle that is written into Article 1 of the UN Charter: respect for equal rights and self-determination.

Human rights is the only ideology that deserves to survive

You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.

We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which are considered and accepted as bill of rights. These are to be insured to people. So all nations, all societies try to do that.

… the international Magna Carta of all mankind

No doubt that a great deal of nonsense has been written about the “unalienable rights of individuals.”

The key to understanding the impact of the Human Rights Act in the U.K. is to appreciate that civil liberties and human rights are not two sides of the same coin.

We also intend to deal with the issue of incorporating basic human rights into our new constitution.

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

The absolute rights of individuals may be resolved into the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty, and the right to enjoy and acquire property

Civil Rights ... include and embrace every right that pertains to the citizen.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property.

It is the duty of the liberal to protect and extend the basic democratic freedoms.

Personal liberty shall be inviolable. No Danish subject shall in any manner whatever be deprived of his liberty because of his political or religious convictions or because of his descent.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.