Quotes About Rights

The economic metaphor came to be applied to every aspect of modern life, especially the areas where it simply didn't belong. In fields such as education, equality of opportunity, health, employee's rights, the social contract and culture, the first conversation to happen should be about values and principles; then you have the conversation about costs, and what you as a society can afford.

What do you think spies are: priests, saints, and martyrs? They're a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing rights and wrongs?

All men should be feminists. If men care about women's rights the world will be a better place. We are better off when women are empowered – it leads to a better society.

He thought that he was a human being with rights, when in fact he was just another animal in the zoo.

We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Government has no other end than the preservation of property.

Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

but since He gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw form it, it cannot be supposed He meant it should always remain common and uncultivated. He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it)...

Every man has a property in his person, This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Whenever law ends, tyranny begins

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.

He that had as good left for his improvement as was already taken up, needed not complain, ought not to meddle with what was already improved by another's labour:

That all government is absolute monarchy." And the ground he builds on is this, "That no man is born free.

he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice to an offender, take away or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.

El fin de la ley no es abolir o restringir, sino preservar y ampliar la libertad. Para todos los estados de seres creados, capaces de derecho, donde no hay ley, no hay libertad.

Where there is no property, there is no injury

This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief

the state of war once begun, continues with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace

for a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one

we find among the Jews, as well as other nations, that men did sell themselves; but, it is plain, this was only to drudgery, not to slavery: