"Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity"

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Source : The Amnesty International Annual Report (p. 22), 2002.

Peter Benenson

#Country Quotes #Government Quotes #Two Quotes

“Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources”

Source : "Eco-overdraft sends earth into the red" by Paul Sussman, www.cnn.com. October 11, 2006.
“People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.”
“The freedom of the mind is the beginning of all other freedoms.”
“The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.”

Source : Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights: An Intensely Human and Brilliant Account of the World War; why American Entered the Conflict; what the Allies Fought For; and a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”
“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”
“A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (2012). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.27, Courier Corporation
“I think that we'd be very wise not to predict anything with Donald Trump.”
“The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.”

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