1,033 Quotes About Rights

My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.

Rights are a protection from society. But only by fulfilling their obligations to society can the individual give meaning to that protection.(V - From Ideology Towards Equilibrium)

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

The condition of women in a nation is the real measure of its progress.

Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.#Page: 120

A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men;it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation by one's own effort.

There is no such thing as "the right to enslave".A nation can do it , just as a man can become a criminal - but neither can do it by right. It doesn't matter in this context, whether a nation was enslaved by force (like soviet Russia), or by vote (like Nazi Germany).

If I were king, I would redress an abuse which cuts back, as it were, one half of human kind. I would have women participate in all human rights, especially those of the mind.