1,033 Quotes About Rights

Participating and voting only in elections is not democracy

There is no them without you, and without their right to break you they must necessarily fall from the mountain, lose their divinity, and tumble out of the Dream.

The tissues of society become cancerous when the duties of some are transformed into the rights of others.

It is well to remember that any man who denies justice to someone he hates prepares the way for a denial of justice to someone he loves.

When Liberalism denied the correlation between right and duty, it ended by emphasizing right to the exclusion of duty. The led inevitably to the present situation, where no one can coherently speak of duties at all, for the only duty left is to respect another man's rights.

By holding out to the people a new right—the right to vote—it becomes possible set on them a radically new duty, a duty that no peasant population would have so readily accepted: the duty to wage war. This was always the justification of the nobility's privilege: they ruled because they fought, and they fought because they ruled.

The truth is that it is impossible to bestow a right. Only duties can be placed on a man, and anyone pretending to offer you a right is trying to smuggle "the last of all oppressions" right under your nose. But this is how it has always gone, for Liberalism is a flatterer.

Taxpayers are justified in protesting for their rights, since they have first fulfilled their duty of paying taxes.

One has nothing to lose by defending one's rights, even if one knows one cannot succeed. But the future is long and lies in God's hands.