1,033 Quotes About Rights

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

That's the thing about war: it's never enough to disable the buildings, to blow holes into their middles; instead, they're hit over and over again, as if to pound them to dust, to disintegrate them, to remove them from the earth, to deny that families ever lived in them. But people did live there. And they needed to return, even though there was nothing left to return to except forbidding piles of broken concrete and cable wires sticking out of the heaps like markers of malevolence.

If citizens are punished instantly for breaking the laws, then politicians should also be punished immediately for breaking the promises.

There are no rogue ships; there are only rogue shipowners.

When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.

Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.

La libertà significa il diritto di essere eretici, non conformisti di fronte alla cultura ufficiale e che la cultura, in quanto creatività, sconvolge la tradizione ufficiale

...the most sacred right of a person is to refuse o be manipulated, handled, cheated, and then kicked in the ass---.