“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I think liberals have to come to terms with the market and embrace market mechanisms as the only way to run a… — Douglas Massey 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
In this dilemma they evolved the theory of natural rights. If 'natural rights' means anything it means that the individual rights are… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries.… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein 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
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The humanitarian philosophies that have been developed (sometimes under some religious banner and invariably in the face of religious opposition) are human… — Harry Kroto Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights. — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much… — Lysander Spooner 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
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 simple truth hit Shiva: if the entire society carried out its duties, nobody would need to fight for their individual rights… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“I support the right of the individual, the right of the most individuals to get what they want. That is all majority… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign… — Trent Lott Copy Share Image
We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image