Quotes About Rights

On doit tous être pareils. Nous ne naissons pas libres et égaux, comme le proclame la Constitution, on nous rend égaux.

Youth is insolent; it is its right—its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence.

Youth is insolent; it is its right—its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence. He

Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive large parts of the citizenry of basic rights.

importancia de las democracias donde imperan el derecho, el debido proceso legal, los sistemas de pesos y contrapesos y una miríada de instituciones implicadas en descubrir, evaluar y decir la verdad.

The rule of law is supposed to protect the weak against the strong and ensure fair treatment for all.

People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.

Yossarian estaba comprometiendo sus tradicionales derechos de libertad e independencia con la osadía de ejercerlos.

Don't be such an ass, Scheisskopf. People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. Yossarian

Mindenkinek joga van azt tenni, amit nem tilt a törvény, márpedig azt nem tiltja a törvény, hogy magának hazudjanak.

People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.

For Catch-22 is the unwritten law which empowers the authorities to revoke your rights whenever it suits their cruel whims; it is, in short, the principle of absolute evil in a malevolent, mechanical, and incompetent world.

For Catch-22 is the unwritten law which empowers the authorities to revoke your rights whenever it suits their cruel whims;

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

Elizabeth Cady read the nation's great Declaration, and it bothered her. All men are created equal, it said. But what about women?

You must speak in the language of justice.

we must learn to live and to embrace the destruction and rearticulation of the human in the name of a more capacious and, finally, less violent world, not knowing in advance what precise our form our humanness can and does take. It means we must be open to its permutations, in the name of nonviolence. [...] The necessity of keeping our notion of the human open to a future articulation is essential to the project of international human rights discourse and its politics.

Thus the successful bid to gain access to marriage effectively strengthens marital status as a state-sanctioned condition for the exercise of certain kinds of rights and entitlements; it strengthens the hand of the state in the regulation of human sexual behavior; and it emboldens the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate forms of partnership and kinship.

A person's right to life means his right to have the free and unrestricted use of all the things which may be necessary to his fullest mental, spiritual and physical unfolding -- in other words, his right to be rich.

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I am humbled before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of more "life"; I had no right to remain a single hour.

Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.