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Quotes About Rights

No one should be subjected to force over things which belonged to him.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A utopia of judicial reticence: take away life, but prevent the patient from feeling it; deprive the prisoner of all rights, but do not inflict pain; impose penalties free of all pain. Recourse to psycho-pharmacology and to various physiological 'disconnectors', even if it is temporary, is a logical consequence of this 'non-corporal' penality. The
~ Michel Foucault
Utopía del pudor judicial: quitar la existencia evitando sentir el daño, privar de todos los derechos sin hacer sufrir, imponer penas liberadas de dolor.
~ Michel Foucault
Women's rights must not be treated as trivial adjuncts to great questions of war and peace, poverty and development. What's at stake are not lifestyles but lives.
~ Michelle Goldberg
Taking action is being alive. It's taking the risk to go out and express your dream. This is different than imposing your dream on someone else, because everyone has the right to express his or her dream.
~ Miguel Ruiz
We don't have the right to change anyone else, and no one else has the right to change us. If we are going to change, it is because we want to change, because we don't want to suffer any longer.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Nacemos con el derecho a ser felices, con el derecho a disfrutar de la vida.
~ Miguel Ruiz
find your voice to ask for what you want. Everybody has the right to tell you no or yes, but you always have the right to ask. Likewise, everybody has the right to ask you, and you have the right to say yes or no.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Todos los derechos son reservados. Este libro no puede ser reproducido total o parcialmente sin permiso escrito del editor, excepto por un
~ Miguel Ruiz
Respetar el derecho de alguien a tener una opinión es un acto de amor.
~ Miguel Ruiz
I was struck by the absurdity of the idea when I recalled to mind that once upon a time there were some exceedingly wise people who thought that the stars of heaven participated in our insignificant squabbles for a slice of ground, or some other imaginary rights.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
~ Milan Kundera
the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love, the desire for rest the right to rest, the desire for friendship the right to friendship, the desire to exceed the speed limit the right to exceed the speed limit, the desire for happiness the right to happiness, the desire to publish a book the right to publish a book, the desire to shout in the street in the middle of the night the right to shout in the street.
~ Milan Kundera
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
~ Milton Friedman
A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
~ Milton Friedman
Children are responsible individuals in embryo. They have ultimate rights of their own and are not simply the playthings of their parents.
~ Milton Friedman
The government has no more right to tell me what goes into my mouth, including illegal drugs, than it has to tell me what comes out of my mouth.
~ Milton Friedman
I was very concerned about helping animals improve their situations. But that was out of love. It wasn't political or out of a belief that animals had rights.
~ Sam Simon
I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
~ Sayed Badreya
I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all.
~ Steve Wozniak
Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.
~ Thomas Jefferson
DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him.
~ William Shakespeare
We don't make determinations about who we love. And that's why I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong.
~ Barack Obama
I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me. Nobody. I mean, who uses it more than I do?
~ Donald Trump