You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly… — Jonathan D. Morris Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws… — John Goodwin Copy Share Image
I believe in individual rights so much that I don't like any sort of 'what's good for the cause'-type questions. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The socialist submerging of the individual under the collective’s prerogative is a perverse and putrid vision for humanity.” — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start, requiring several amendments, a civil war and momentous social transformation… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The United States has been declared under martial law...All constitutional rights have been suspended. Anyone interfering with the collection of urine samples… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“[you’ll acquire] A certain amount of cynicism. This business works on you. When you were in law school you had some noble… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
People come to have different moral beliefs because they have different non-moral beliefs about relevant facts. People are disposed to believe whatever… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
My immediate priorities are peace and stability. I want to differentiate between stability and security: Stability comes from the hearts of people… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
“The real issues are whether the power of Western Civilization, as God has permitted it to flower in our own beloved lands,… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
My own sense as an American is that we have begun to experience the disadvantages of framing virtually all moral issues in… — David Wong Copy Share Image
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Legally speaking, there are no such things as 'public rights,' as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is… — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense. — Richard Scaife Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of… — Ann Robinson Copy Share Image
In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has… — Harry Woodburn Chase Copy Share Image
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is,… — Potter Stewart Copy Share Image
“A privileging of individual rights over group goods can lead to serious problems, as we’ve seen with the antivaccination movement.” — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
Zionism needn't continue, and won't continue, to bow its head to a system of individual rights interpreted in a universal way. — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
![“Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will be meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others…” quote by Rudolf Rocker](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b7e/rudolf-rocker-14426_dignity_political-or-individual-rights-do-not-ex_985308.png)
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