Theo van Boven famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
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I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.
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All true religion, all true morality, all true mysticism have but one object, and that is to act on humanity, collective and individual, in such a manner that it shall correspond efficiently with the great law of development, and co-operate consciously therewith to achieve the end of development.
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The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
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The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.
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It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
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My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.
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I recognize no rights but human rights.
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The most fitting monuments this nation can build are schoolhouses and homes for those who do the work of the world. It is no answer to say that they are accustomed to rags and hunger. In this world of plenty every human being has a right to food, clothes, decent shelter, and the rudiments of education.
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If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
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