Quotes About Inviolability

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings – certain basic goods, including life itself, that cannot be taken away from them unless they in some way forfeit them. Life

Nothing was anything until someone defined it. Nothing was inevitable. Nothing was inviolate. Everything existed, perhaps, by the act of faith, and we were always in the midst of creating our world, complete with the trappings of tradition that was nothing more than an invention like all the rest.

Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override.

The Sanctity/degradation foundation

Largos períodos de paz promueven ciertas ilusiones. Una de ellas es creer que la inviolabilidad del hogar se basa en la Constitución. En realidad, se basa en el padre de familia que se encuentra en su puerta, rodeado de sus hijos, hacha en mano

The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines that inviolability is a challenge to the rights of every Catholic to freedom of religion and conscience.

Taken separately, the men of the Convention were enlightened citizens of peaceful habits. United in a crowd, they did not hesitate to give their adhesion to the most savage proposals, to guillotine individuals most clearly innocent, and, contrary to their interests, to renounce their inviolability and to decimate themselves.

Te occidere possunt sed te edere non pussunt nefas est