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Any alleged "right" of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another isn't and can't be a right.
— Ayn Rand
Look, if I'd wanted a lecture on the rights of man, I'd have gone to bed with Martin Luther.
— Rowan Atkinson
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete
— Rod Serling
The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs.
— Ron Brackin
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
— Dan Savage
Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
— Mary Frances Berry
In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.
— Mary Robinson
America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice.
— Albert Einstein
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
— Thomas More
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed.
— Howard Mumford Jones
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
— Dalton Trumbo
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.
— Edmund Burke
The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.
— Richard Llewellyn
The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
— Thomas Sankara
When you violate the rights of one man, you have violated the rights of all, and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction.
— Ayn Rand
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
— Edmund Burke
Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.
— Thomas Paine
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, but men are measured by their right.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.
— Sarah Moore Grimke
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.
— Pope Francis
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
— Immanuel Kant
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
— Immanuel Kant
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.
— Charles Baudelaire
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.
— Charles Lindbergh
Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.
— Samuel Adams
The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.
— Robert C. Maynard
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
— Thomas Jefferson
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
— Ayn Rand
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
— Gerrit Smith
Toleration in religion was one of the great rights of man, and a man ought never to be deprived of what was his natural right.
— Charles James Fox
To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
— Alex Epstein
The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility.
— Wyndham Lewis
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
— Dr. Seuss
Ignorance strips a man of his rights and privileges, and reduces him to a 'nobody'.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.
— Woodrow Wilson
If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew. Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.
— Hannah Arendt
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
— Ayn Rand
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
— Massad Ayoob
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
— Fulton J. Sheen
I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.
— David R. Brower
For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.
— Ayn Rand
When you're silent, your silence condones it. Thus, whatever you believe in goes down the drain.
— Jennifer Tindugan-Adoviso
If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
— Christian Morgenstern
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.
— Thomas Paine
During war we imprison the rights of man.
— Jean Giraudoux
Rights and rules, which are bonds of iron to a little man, are packthread to a giant.
— Anthony Trollope
I detect the activist returning with a vengence.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.
— Thomas Jefferson
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
— Thomas Jefferson
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
The woman has the right to be emancipated from the position of a drudge or a toy. She is entitled to a full equality in rights with man ...
— Theodore Roosevelt
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
— William James
Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man. It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action.
— Woodrow Wilson
The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Liberty is not something a government gives you. It is a right that no government can legally take away.
— A.E. Samaan
Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective
— James Madison
Laws are the very bulkwarks of liberty; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men.
— J.G. Holland
There cannot be perfect civilization until Man realizes that the rights of every living creature are as sacred as his own.
— David Starr Jordan
The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.
— Thomas Paine
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.
— William J. Brennan Jr.
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
— Victor Hugo
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
— Jane Addams
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
— Maximilien Robespierre
It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.
— Jay Woodman
The right to choose does not mean the choice is right.
— Ron Brackin