Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its...

Live for your country, die to yourself; live for yourself, die to your country.

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state – a new idea, this – even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

I’m against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not – and must not – restrict voting rights in any way, shape or...

There will always be wars,” Maggie told him.”Yes,” Reeve replied. “But there will also be brothers, sisters, comrades and lovers as well, and they are who we fight for. Our comrades–our brothers–beside us on the...

I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender – usually of rights – mine and others.

A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little...

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

My parents, man, they’re just the most loving, encouraging… They’re like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l’auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient -le mot n’est pas trop vaste- au genre humain. Toutes les intelligences y ont droit. Si l’un des deux droits, le droit de...

The thing about rights is that in the end you can’t prove what should be considered a right.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

If we don’t take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

Article 191. Everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference.2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of...

Sam was helping animals long before he was Sam Simon. He lived what he believed; his thing was making the world better and having rights for animals, and every area of his life reflected that.

This wasn’t the Dark Ages, and she wasn’t living in a third world nation where women didn’t have any rights and were treated unequally.

The world is full of nations that are part of the community of nations that don’t respect rights.

Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this...

No despotism, no privileged monopolies, no police societies, no divine rights of the emirs or feudal landlords or shady priests and sheikhs. All had the same equal footing—the rich and the poor, the noble and...

Rights are not a matter of numbers – and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

God gave a choice to Adam and Eve to eat the fruit which caused death and pain to all mankind. How is that different than allowing a choice regarding abortion? A person may make the...

At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk human rights debates with the West. They had their arguments ready.

Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic ‘rights,’ [Don] Feder is not wrong to conclude: Absent a delicate balance–rights and duties, freedom and order–the social fabric...

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violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble.

The man’s rights and the woman’s rights are the same size. They have the right to have their opinions and desires respected, to have a 50 percent say in decision making, to live free from...

I can hear the roar of women’s silence

Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.

In my judgment, the woman is the equal of the man. She has all the rights I have and one more, and that is the right to be protected. That is my doctrine. You are...

DO WHAT IS RIGHT! DONT RUNAWAY FROM WHAT IS WORTH A FIGHT

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That’s what I’ve been doing all my life.

It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to men… and modern nations, in the consecrations of kings, and in several superstitious...

I am an ardent supporter of capitalism – but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.

Man is guaranteed only those rights which he can defend.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

A world that becomes more Muslim becomes less everything else. First it’s Jews, already abandoning France. Then it’s homosexuals, already under siege from gay-bashing in Amsterdam, ‘the most tolerant city in Europe’. Then it’s uncovered...

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand for specific rights degraded into a generalized sense of entitlement, the demand for...

Upon this dispute not alone our lands and goods are engaged, but all that we call ours. These rights, these privileges, which made our fathers freemen, are in question.

Iran’s continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran’s leaders.

So, take the idea of “rights” and drip some acid on it. Even the most adult of the Ancients knew: the source of a right is power, a right is a function of power. Take...

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II’s startling warning about democracy “effectively mov[ing] towards a form of totalitarianism.” It begins to happen at a practical level when we simultaneously...

compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice...

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

Judges are the people who have to protect the rights of individuals, have to protect the rights of minorities, have to protect the rights in the Constitution, have to protect the requirement that the executive...

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‘leaders’ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.