Quotes About Rights

A manís liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited

Der Lebensschutz des potentiellen Opfers soll mehr wiegen als die Menschenwürde des potenziellen Täters.

Im Kampf gegen den Terror zählt [...] die Freiheit des Einzelnen wenig.

Der rechtsstaatliche Katalog ist schön und gut, aber nur, solange er die Bekämpfung des Terrorismus nicht behindert.

Der Präventionsstaat muss [...] dem Bürger immer mehr Freiheiten nehmen, um ihm dafür Sicherheit zu geben.

Prävention, die das Recht konsumiert, hat den Zug zu Totalität und Exzessivität.

In einem maßlosen Staat [...] gibt es vielleicht ein wenig mehr Sicherheit, aber ganz sicher sehr viel weniger Freiheit.

Wer Feind ist, ist keine rechtliche, sondern eine politische Frage.

Ein Individuum, das sich nicht in einen bürgerlichen Zustand zwingen [lässt], [kann] den Segnungen des Begriffs "Person" nicht teilhaftig werden.

Sicherheit ist die gut ausbalancierte Freiheit aller.

Der Staat, der nur wegen und aus der Freiheit seiner Menschen besteht, darf sich nicht gegen seine Schöpfer wenden.

I do not believe abortion should be legal.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.

I think now that this is the great division between people. There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, in-built, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that it is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

I know she's rather plain, but every girl has a right to conceal that fact from people who haven't seen her.

1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris: The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs to him. This is a fundamental rule of natural law, human rights and civil government; a rule which consists not only in maintaining the rights of property, but also those rights vested in the individual and derived from prerogatives of birth and social position.

they were intent on framing a 'Declaration of the Rights of Man'. Some were heard to mutter that the Assembly should write the constitution first, since rights exist in virtue of laws, but jurisprudence is such a dull subject, and liberty so exciting.

There are people who find life hard and those who find it easy. There are those who have a natural, inbuilt, expectation of happiness, and there are those who feel that happiness is not to be expected: that is not, in fact, one of the rights of man. Nor, God knows, one of the rights of women.

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.