1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris:
The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs to him. This is a fundamental rule of natural law, human rights and civil government; a rule which consists not only in maintaining the rights of property, but also those rights vested in the individual and derived from prerogatives of birth and social position.
Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something.
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One's interest or need does not annul other's right.
Al-Hafiz B.A. MasriTag: animals morality ethics animal-rights philosophy religion animal-welfare islam rights muslims rights-and-duties animal-abuse
I think it is true to say only an inferior person has rights. When you hear a person talking about his rights, you may be sure he is trying to gain by dint of shouting something which he lacks ( or had and lost) by reason of some culpable deficiency in himself.
Flann O'BrienTag: rights
Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.
Flann O'BrienTag: rights
Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.
Criss JamiTag: freedom silence speech warning dictatorship freedom-of-speech force rights pressure abuse miranda-rights miranda-warning
Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant only if right is relevant in this context, and it is not. A suicidal man cannot be concerned - and nor should he be - with questions of moral entitlement. (And how absurd.) His one concern should be whether self-execution will most expediently relieve his suffering.
Antonella Gambotto-BurkeTag: suffering suicide rights relief self-execution david-hume moral-entitlement suicidal-man
I have received the favor of your letter of August 17th, and with it the volume you were so kind as to send me on the Literature of Negroes. Be assured that no person living wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a complete refutation of the doubts I have myself entertained and expressed on the grade of understanding allotted to them by nature, and to find that in this respect they are on a par with ourselves. My doubts were the result of personal observation on the limited sphere of my own State, where the opportunities for the development of their genius were not favorable, and those of exercising it still less so. I expressed them therefore with great hesitation; but whatever be their degree of talent it is no measure of their rights. Because Sir Isaac Newton was superior to others in understanding, he was not therefore lord of the person or property of others. On this subject they are gaining daily in the opinions of nations, and hopeful advances are making towards their reestablishment on an equal footing with the other colors of the human family.
Thomas JeffersonTag: equality nature understanding negroes isaac-newton newton rights equal-rights limited
Treason starts the moment when people violate their own rights.
M.F. MoonzajerRights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.
Malalai JoyaTag: politics progress freedom rights
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