Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Rights.
Where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up. But the truth blows right on over it, nevertheless, and at length blows it down.
Henry David Thoreau
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell
Whatever be their degree of talents, it is no measure of their rights.
Thomas Jefferson
Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
Charles Dickens
My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line and kiss my ass.
Christopher Hitchens
You must be a prophet right enough, said Alvin Junior, cause I can't understand a thing you said.
Orson Scott Card
He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.
A wrong turn doesn't end the journey. If you feel lost, just look at your map and get back on the road. The map will always lead you in the right direction.
Steve Maraboli
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
Thomas Carlyle
The more respect that objects, customs, or laws are given, the more attentively you must question the right these things have to this respect.
Leo Tolstoy
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions.
Ronald Reagan
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the states where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Abraham Lincoln
Was George Orwell right about 1984?
Steve Jobs
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong.
A right delayed is a right denied.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.
Jodi Picoult
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain
The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.
