Quotes on Rights

My situation should have been a lot worse. By rights I shouldn't have survived the crash.

Author: Rick Allen

If you don't have the rights, you can't do the show.

Author: Roone Arledge

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

Author: Max Baucus

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

Author: Melissa Bean

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

Author: Glenn Beck

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.

Author: Carol Bellamy

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

Author: Howard Berman

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.

Author: Georges Bernanos

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Author: William Blackstone

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

Author: Emma Bonino

I don't believe gun owners have rights.

Author: Sarah Brady

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

Author: Rory Bremner

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Author: Sitting Bull

The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.

Author: Silvia Cartwright

We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.

Author: Andrew Cohen

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Author: Calvin Coolidge

Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.

Author: Adrian Cronauer

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

Author: Adrian Cronauer

These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

Author: Caleb Cushing

Now, I think that in acknowledging that every individual Member of Parliament and indeed every individual member of the Labour Party, has rights to express their view in a spirit of tolerance.

Author: Ron Davies

We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty.

Author: Jose Diego

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Author: Thomas Drummond

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

Author: Paul Farmer

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

Author: Adam Ferguson

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

Author: Larry Flynt

The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

Author: Christopher Gadsden

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

Author: Frank Gaffney

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

Author: Jose Gasset

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Author: Dag Hammarskjold

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

Author: Garrett Hardin

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

Author: Georg Hegel

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

Author: O. Henry

A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.

Author: Patricia Highsmith

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

Author: Sam Houston

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Author: Victor Hugo

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Author: Robert Ingersoll

It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

Author: Joichi Ito

If we destroy human rights and rule of law in the response to terrorism, they have won.

Author: Joichi Ito

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Author: Junius

The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.

Author: Ali Khamenei

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question.

Author: David Korten

I'm pretty political when it comes to human rights and things like that.

Author: Peter Krause

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

Author: Hans Kung

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.

Author: Aung Kyi

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

Author: Patrick Leahy

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

Author: Karl Liebknecht

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.

Author: Anna Lindh

I can't remember when I wasn't an animal rights activist.

Author: Ali MacGraw

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Author: James Madison

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Author: Bill Maher

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

Author: Ed Markey

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

Author: Giuseppe Mazzini

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

Author: George McClellan

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.

Author: Aaron McGruder

The global response to global terrorism must not endanger fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Author: Stjepan Mesic

But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.

Author: Frederica Montseny

The last thing the Department of Homeland Security is about is infringing on anybody's constitutionally protected rights.

Author: Janet Napolitano

If you want my opinion, I say that this is a state based on occupation, that has usurped the rights of others.

Author: Hassan Nasrallah

The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give them the minimum of their rights.

Author: Hassan Nasrallah

What libertarians assert is simply that differences among normal adults do not imply different fundamental rights.

Author: Tom Palmer

Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

Author: Henri Rebecque

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

Author: Orville Redenbacher

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Author: Agnes Repplier

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

Author: Maximilien Robespierre

Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights.

Author: Elihu Root

The treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them.

Author: Michael Scheuer

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

Author: Allyson Schwartz

Therefore, states are equal in natural rights.

Author: William Seward

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected.

Author: Tommy Shaw

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Author: Jules Shear

And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.

Author: Hugh Shelton

To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.

Author: Gerrit Smith

To say, that Capt. Ingraham violated the rights of Turkey, is nonsense.

Author: Gerrit Smith

Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.

Author: Gerrit Smith

The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected.

Author: Gerrit Smith

I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights.

Author: Sonia Sotomayor

All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights.

Author: Richard Stallman

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Author: Jalal Talabani

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Author: Alfred Tennyson

The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong.

Author: Dionigi Tettamanzi

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

Author: Clarence Thomas

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

Author: Charles Tupper

Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

Author: Bjorn Ulvaeus

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Author: Diane Watson

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

Author: Simone Weil

Saddam Hussein wrote the book on human rights violations.

Author: Curt Weldon

I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution."

Author: Bradley Whitford

At some point we must realize that actively defending against radical Islamic teachings is not a matter of cultural relativity. It is a matter of universally recognized human rights.

Author: Armstrong Williams

All men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights

Author: Alexander Hamilton