1,033 Quotes About Rights

In the preface to her translation of the philosopher, economist, and satirist Bernard Mandeville’s 1714 social allegory The Fable of the Bees, Du Châtelet wrote: If I were king, I would wish to make this scientific experiment. I would reform an abuse that cuts out, so to speak, half of humanity. I would allow women to share in all the rights of humanity, and most of all those of the mind.

...the freedom to bear arms may be righteously rejected to encourage the preservation of all corporeal forms of life.

I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks

An agenda driven by greed is never informed by thought.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

If I’m owed anything, it would be all of the consequences that come with believing that I’m owed.

I wonder how different life would be if the only thing we demanded of it was the opportunity to give back to it.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.

We recklessly attempt to disguise our ‘greed’ by dressing it in the garb of other nobler ideals such as ‘rights’ and ‘privileges.’ Yet, if we dare dress ‘greed’ in an authentic sense of thankfulness, greed will suffocate within the folds of that very clothing.