Quotes About Rights

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

The best revenge is democracy.

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.

Liberty is always unfinished business

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

Getting your license gives you the right to pick your nose in the car.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

An employer has no business with a man's personality. Employment is a specific contract calling for a specific performance, and nothing else. Any attempt by an employer to go beyond this is usurpation. It is an immoral as well as illegal intrusion of privacy.

it was "decidedly instructive" to contemplate "the ease with which one-half of the population of the country were suddenly deprived of the right of speech, the right to read, and one might almost say the right to think.

A woman should be able to walk the streets of Eastvale stark naked if she wants, and no one has the right to touch her.

The basic principle of equality does not require equal or identical treatment; it requires equal consideration. Equal consideration for different beings may lead to different treatment and different rights.

Either the animal is not like us, in which case there is no reason for performing the experiment; or else the animal is like us, in which case we ought not to perform on the animal an experiment that would be considered outrageous if performed on one of us.

Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.

Humanos o no, todos los animales son iguales.

Bentham señala la capacidad de sufrimiento como la característica básica que le torga a un ser el derecho a una consideración igual