1,033 Quotes About Rights

What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

I have not stopped water when it should run. I have not made a cutting in a canal of running water.

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 opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on earth outside the framework of an organized state.

The trouble was, no one thought about the victims any more. It was all about human rights for the criminal. Injustice was the name of the game now.

No one has the right to decide your fate unless you give them the authority to do so

One has every right to create one's own destiny, none to interfere in anyone else's.

For example, under the Articles of Confederation, the national government could not tax people directly, as we do today, but must ask for money from the states, which could raise it however they wanted.

That's our right," Dr. Gaul countered. "No, it isn't! I don't care what you say. You've no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. These are things everyone is born with, and they're not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn't give you the right., having more weapons' doesn't give you that right. Being from the capital doesn't give you that right. Nothing does." (pg. 161)

Assim, a integração e a participação são a obsessão dos não-participantes, daqueles que sobrevivem entre os fragmentos da sociedade possível e das ruínas do passado: excluídos da cidade, às portas do urbano […]