Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.
Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.
It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.
I can’t tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.
Men have to be reminded that women exist.
Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.
I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.
I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people’s lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can’t do some of the things I want.
As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do – I just did it.
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
Choose a challenge instead of competence.