Quotes About Rights

Queers Against Israeli Apartheid

America did not teach men the idea of freedom; she taught them how to practice it.

There are People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but sadly no Animals for the Ethical Treatment of People.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

I forgot at the time that this inability to penetrate a room is a particular form of hesitation to be associated with persons in whom an extreme egoism is dominant: the acceptance of someone else's place or dwelling possibly implying some distasteful abnegation of the newcomer's rights or position.

I don't want no notoriety. I wants to earn my bread peaceable, and to be let alone when I'm about my own business. I pays rates for the police to look after rogues, not to haul folks about and lock 'em up for days and nights, who is doing what they has a legal right to do.

Is a woman like a head of cattle, that she can be fastened in her crib by force? I will never live with him though all the judges of the land should decide that I must do so.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

Tyrannies have long lists of rights. What they do not have is structural restraints on the power of government.

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom.

The immune system, the hypothalamus, the ventro-medial frontal cortices, and the Bill of Rights have the same root cause.

Culture is something quite different. It is organization, discipline of one's inner self, a coming to terms with one's own personality; it is the attainment of a higher awareness, with the aid of which one succeeds in understanding one's own historical value, one's own function in life, one's own rights and obligations.

Ma questa non è cultura, è pedanteria, non è intelligenza, ma intelletto, e contro di essa ben a ragione si reagisce. La cultura è una cosa ben diversa. È organizzazione, disciplina del proprio io interiore, è presa di possesso della propria personalità, è conquista di coscienza superiore, per la quale si riesce a comprendere il proprio valore storico, la propria funzione nella vita, i propri diritti e i propri doveri.

La libertà, come il pane, deve essere garantita

There is something in us that refuses to be regarded as less than human. We are created for freedom

If half this country feels so threatened by two people of the same gender being in love and having sex (and, incidentally, enjoying equal protection under the law), that they turn their attention—during wartime—to blocking rights already denied to homosexuals, then all the cardio striptease classes in the world aren't going to render us sexually liberated.

The whole point is that everybody gets to marry the person they love.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.

a man's beliefs were his own affair, so long as they did not interfere with the liberty of others.