Rights Quotes

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Aristotle

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

George Bernard Shaw

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Albert Camus

She grunted. Nothing unusual? That's right. Well, if you ask me, that's pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.

Orson Scott Card

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Victor Hugo

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

Don't be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn't allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand orchestration. The devil always has you right were God wants you.

Steve Maraboli

Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.

William Blackstone

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

William Blackstone, Commentaries

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

George Bernard Shaw

And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Kurt Vonnegut

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.

Thomas Jefferson

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

Friedrich Nietzsche

When we focus our attention on things that are either in the past of in the future, it dilutes our experience of right now. Today is the day you can break from that.

Steve Maraboli

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

Ambrose Bierce

I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say it was god's will when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.

Terry Pratchett

If I have to choose between an omnipotent God who leaves the world in this condition, and a God who has only a little bit of power but really cares and tries to make things better, I'll take you every time. Go on playing God, Hyrum. You're not bad at it. Sometimes you kind of get it right.

Orson Scott Card

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

Thomas Jefferson

When they're standing right in front of you, kings are a kind of speech impediment.

Terry Pratchett