I don’t make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

We believe that privacy is a fundamental human right.

In a free society, people should have the right to criticize a religion; they should have the right to do so, and of course their criticisms are themselves open to criticism; that is the essence of freedom of speech and thought.

For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.

He respects owl, because you can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right.

It must be said that almost all primitive people think themselves divinely wrought, singled out and special. Often their names translate simply as “the people” or, like the San bushmen of the Kalahari, the first people. But this is a symptom of primitiveness; attempting to prove divine biology in the nineteenth century is the anthropological equivalent of a society regressing to sleeping with the lights on

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.

The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hopes. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.

And yet women-good women–frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it’s just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a ‘metamorphosis of the gods.

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government.

That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, Dis a war

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity, and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.

I never thought I’d have children; I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home – you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.

Humanities education is the worst thing for an industrialist

It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run

Inequality is the source of all evil, but property is the greatest of all rights; so that the rights of property are the most important of all rights

The power of the majority is so absolute and irresistible that one must give up one’s rights.

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jury-men may dine

Man’s will is his greatest power

It is necessary to be honest and truthful in life because eventually, the truth will come to light, and people will see through the deception.

I still feel that as a sport going to places with human rights issues, such as this one, I feel that the sport is duty bound to raise awareness and try to leave a positive impact, and I feel like it needs to do more.