British Irish Rights Watch - Independent human rights watch organisation. Contains case studies and archives, and details services provided to both lawyers and individuals. Includes detailed reports on the murders of Rosemary Nelson, Billy Wright and Patrick Finucane.
Human Rights Unit of the Civil Service - A unit within the Office of the First Minister and his Deputy. Contains news, legal data and information on training provided.
Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission - Statutory body established in terms of the Northern Ireland Act, in compliance with the Good Friday Agreement. Includes press releases, reports, speeches and information about relevant legislation.
Northern Ireland Human Rights Consortium - Established in 2000 to encourage widespread community participation in the consultation process on the proposed Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland. Includes events, lobbying information and FAQ.
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Human Rights Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Human Rights
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Human Rights "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Human Rights
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Human Rights "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Human Rights
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Human Rights I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Human Rights
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Human Rights "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Human Rights
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Human Rights The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Human Rights
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Human Rights "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Human Rights
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Human Rights The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Human Rights
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Human Rights blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Human Rights
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Human Rights "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Human Rights
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Human Rights In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Human Rights
