Quotes About Rights

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).

Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state.

There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

A man can't get his rights in a govment like this. Sometimes I've a mighty notion to just leave the country for good and all.

I wanted to stop the whole thing and set the slaves free, but that would not do.  I must not interfere too much and get myself a name for riding over the country's laws and the citizen's rights roughshod.  If I lived and prospered I would be the death of slavery, that I was resolved upon; but I would try to fix it so that when I became its executioner it should be by command of the nation.

Ours is the "land of the free" — nobody denies that — nobody challenges it. [Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.]

Ours is the land of the free—nobody denies that—nobody challenges it. [Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.]

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

Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty.

What about her? Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty.

Los jóvenes siguen siendo niños y los niños a veces tienen derecho a ser cabezotas.

Liesel was exercising the blatant right of every person who's ever belonged to a family. It's all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won't let anyone else do it. That's when you get your back up and show loyalty.

I wanted to live in a world where people were equal no matter who their parents were or where they were born. I wanted to live in a place where hard work and kindness were valued. Was that too much to ask for? I didn't argue with Lev and Petro though. They also deserved the right to choose their own life.

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left.

Arquímedes dijo una vez: <> Hoy en día, habría señalado nuestros medios de comunicación electrónicos y habría dicho: <>. Pero una vez que hemos entregado nuestros sentidos y nuestros sistemas nerviosos a las manipulaciones de quienes tratan de sacar provecho aniquilando nuestros ojos, oídos, nervios y cerebro, el resultado será que ya no tendremos derechos.

Roosevelt vio que los derechos protegen a la democracia del embate de la envidia. Nadie puede envidiar de su prójimo lo que toda persona tiene por derecho. Elevar ciertas bondades económicas clave a la categoría de derechos socava la envidia, al menos hasta cierto punto. Una de las razones por las que vemos tanta envidia es porque las personas no se sienten seguras en lo que a la base económica de sus vidas respecta.

for the first time in British history, gave votes to women; six million women gained the vote as a result of the new Act.

Nothing could persuade him to accept the possibility of compromise with evil at the expense of others, or to abandon his faith in the rule of law, the supremacy of elected Parliaments and the rights of the individual.

A campanha pelo direito de voto das mulheres era, contudo, "um movimento ridículo". O voto para as mulheres devia ser evitado. "Uma vez que se conceda o voto a um grande número de mulheres, que constituem a maior parte da sociedade", advertiu ele, "todo o poder passará para as mãos delas".

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

A right delayed is a right denied.

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.