"There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation."

-- Irene Khan

#Rights Quotes #Names Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.”

Source : "This Week in Fiction: Colm Tóibín" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. February 24, 2013.
“Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.”
“A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.”
“If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.”
“Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.”

Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2012). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.35, Courier Corporation
“I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.”

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