Adam Cohen Quotes

A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

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• Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • People
  • Rights
  • Unions

• I am passionate about human rights.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Passionate

• Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • Up
  • You
  • Rights

• But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Natural
  • Rights
  • Recycling

• Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Artist
  • Rights
  • Manager

• As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Development
  • Expectations
  • Rights

• If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • You
  • Fight
  • Rights

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Rights
  • Personal
  • Property

• I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • American
  • Rights
  • Citizen

• The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• When you go in for any life rights, you always ask, 'Who would you have play this person, or who would you have direct?'

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Life
  • Always
  • Rights

• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Spirit
  • Rights

• The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Up
  • Find
  • Rights

• In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Rights
  • Equal
  • Equal Rights

• I think the United Nations is a useful format to discuss matters, but I think it's a weak institution in being able to carry out matters and, in many respects even, it has been harmful on things like human rights.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Air
  • Rights

• The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Democracy
  • Meaning
  • Rights

• For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Movement
  • Rights
  • Jazz

• What constitutes a state? . . . . . . . Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. . . . . . . . And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

  

  William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell
  • Knowing
  • Rights
  • Sovereign

• The Saudis have never shown any respect for human rights, either now or in the past. Even a petty burglar faces having one of his hands chopped off. The liberal press in America prefers to ignore all this, although they don't hesitate to blacken the reputation of Iran.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Humans
  • Rights
  • Reputation

• You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Sad

• The goal for me has always been to learn how to express myself in radio and to have fun doing it and work with whatever contingencies arise.

  

  Michael Feldman
  • Goal
  • Learn
  • Radio

• A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Rights
  • Bill Of Rights