Rights Quotes

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)

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks

Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

Human rights must work to uplift human dignity.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?

If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

There have been some positive things that have happened for the tribes, but it's a constant, vigilant fight about protecting what resources we have in terms of land and rights.

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights government should never be permitted to take those away.

The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.

If government can give you rights, government can take them away from you.

Rights come from God, not from government.

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

What I remain opposed to is the idea that David Cameron could go around and give up workers' rights, give up environmental protection, give up a whole load of things that are very important.

Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our groundwater without batting an eyelid.

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

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

I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.