Quotes About Rights

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.

kad?na dara?ac?na ç?kma hakk? tan?n?yor; öyleyse kürsüye ç?kma hakk? da olmal?d?r.

even states with robust laws and a strong commitment to human rights can find it hard to secure all rights for all persons who are (wholly or partly, continuously or episodically) within their borders.

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.19

The striking silence about duties in many contemporary discussions of rights no doubt reflects immense cultural shifts from a world centred on social and ethical duties, to one in which legal requirements and their enforcement by states are seen as fundamental, and in which individuals are commonly seen as having rights – but little is said about their duties.

Roughly speaking, I believe, much abstract cosmopolitan thinking has difficulty in moving on from abstraction to a discussion of institutions because it treats the category of rights as fundamental. The difficulty begins to show as soon as we ask who bears obligations to meet these rights and whether all human beings have the same obligations.

Treating rights as fundamental gives prominence to the perspective of victims, and lends itself all too readily to an emphasis on the form of rectificatory justice of most concern to victims, namely compensation.

Freedom is the right of all Sentient Beings

The moment you introduce property rights into the equation, everything changes: the starfish organization turns into a spider. If you really want to centralize an organization, hand property rights to the catalyst and tell him to distribute resources as he sees fit. With power over property rights, the catalyst turns into a CEO and circles become competitive.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

In Italia si parla sempre di Diritti e mai di Doveri. In Italia si finge di ignorare o si ignora che ogni Diritto comporta un Dovere, che chi non compie il proprio dovere non merita alcun diritto».

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Essere mamma on è un mestiere. Non è neanche un dovere. È solo un diritto fra tanti diritti.

Every right that we enjoy has a corresponding duty to not interfere with the enjoyment of the same right by others.

A society that has no wrongs will soon have no rights.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

For a consumer society thrives by stoking unquenchable desires into unsustainable cravings and fanning them with an inflated rage for rights. The restlessness it creates by providing false satisfactions and deadening true desires simultaneously fuels the economy and destroys happiness.

Just as a man has the right to live, he ought also to have the right to die.

To begin with, I believe a fatal contradiction lies between women's right to vote and lipstick. Those guys usually aren't popular with the ladies. Without a doubt, this is a plan for revenge.

Mientras que las personas tienen el derecho de vivir con libertad, tienen también el derecho de morir en el momento que lo deseen; pero, cuando la madre está viva, hay que renunciar a este derecho porque, al ejercerlo, al mismo tiempo que quitarse la propia vida se llevarían la de la madre.

A free and open internet is vital for the freedom of expression.

At the heart of the struggle of women, people of color, the disabled, the poor, organized workers, immigrants, religious minorities, atheists,and sexual minorities is the radical belief that we are all created equal and deserve the right to life, liberty and pursuits of happiness.

Democracy is a much more brilliant idea than it seems.